Costumes and Customs in Japan

Kazumasa Ogawa (1860 – 1929) :: Hair-gressing (top) ยท Battle-Dore and Shuttle-Cock Play (bottom). Collotype (both). From: Costumes & Customs in Japan. By K. Ogawa, Photographer, Tokyo, Japan. In Collotype & From Photographic Negatives Taken by Him. Kazumasa Ogawa (1893โ€“1895) | src The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavskiโ€™s production of Maurice Maeterlinckโ€™s play โ€˜The Blue Birdโ€™, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library

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** Photographerโ€™s name on verso of the postcard: โ€œะš. ะคะธัˆะตั€ Mockbaโ€

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 Hawkโ€™s Well, 1916

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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.

/ src Columbia University in the City of New York