This print captures a panoramic view of a crowded Kabuki theater during a scene from a vendetta play based on the legend of the Soga brothers. Kabuki theater developed during the early seventeenth century in Japan. Kabuki theater is often considered to be the opposite of the Nōh theater, another classical form of Japanese dance-drama… Continue reading Entry by Cen Liu: Perpsective View (uki-e) of a Kabuki Theatre, with a Performance of The Crest Patterns of the Soga Brothers and Nagoya Sanza (Mon-zukushi Nagoya Soga) 1748 (Enkyō 5), first month