
Costumes and Customs in Japan

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Alexander [Sasha] Stewart :: A Shot at Art. A woman takes aim with a gun, and prepares to shoot a man standing in front of a canvas, in a scene from the play `Fortunato’, 1928. | src Getty Images
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Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavskiโs production of Maurice Maeterlinckโs play โThe Blue Birdโ, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographerโs name on verso of the postcard: โะ. ะคะธัะตั Mockbaโ

Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: A character from Konstantin Stanislavskiโs production of Maurice Maeterlinckโs play โThe Blue Birdโ, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographerโs name on verso of the postcard: โะ. ะคะธัะตั Mockbaโ

Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Portrait of Japanese dancer Michio Ito as ‘The Hawk’ in W.B. Yeats play: At the Hawkโs Well, 1916
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GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito
rehearsing
as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeatsโ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawkโs Well, 1916
/
From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeatsโ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the
uniquely
highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.

Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Actor in a production of โThe Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Actsโ by Maurice Maeterlinck. Digital Positive from original negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose roll film,
ca. 1910
/ src: George Eastman Museum
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Vandammย Studioย ::ย Tallulah Bankhead in “Antony and Cleopatra”,ย 1937 / src: Museum of the city of New York