How Did They Make Japanese Kabuki Theatre Makeup

Kabuki Makeup - Kumadori

Masamitsu Ota 1892-1975

Woodblock print by Masamitsu Ota 1892-1975 Title: Kabuki Makeups - The Supporting Character in Dojoji Kumadori.

Item #
65605

Artist
Masamitsu Ota 1892-1975

Championship
Kabuki Makeups - The Supporting Graphic symbol in Dojoji Kumadori

Clarification
A canvass from the album, "Kabuki Kumadori" (Kumadori makeups for Kabuki) Vol.1. These kumadori designs were stored in the Ichikawa family unit'due south athenaeum. Ichikawa Shinjuro III (afterwards known every bit Ichikawa Danshichi.:1867 - 1929) fabricated great effort to preserve many kumadori designs in the past. This album, created with Shin Hanga primary Masamitsu Ota, has been considered equally an of import certificate for kumadori designs in Japanese performing arts.
This kumadori makeup is used for the secondary character, "Ato (Ado) Shite", in the trip the light fantastic performance, "Dojoji". The blue tone suggests the out of this earth character such as spirit, ghost, super-natural.

Sold
$fifty - 7/21/2016

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Kumadori is the Japanese word for the makeup worn by the kabuki actors. The pattern of the makeup and the colour represent sure characters. Thus the kabuki audience could easily recognize what kind of role an thespian represented - a hero, a villain, a ghost, ..

The Pregnant of Kumadori - Kabuki Makeup

Kumadori is the theatrical brand-up to enhance certain qualities of a kabuki role for the audition. Thus the audience has an easy to empathize petty helper to assess the character of a function.

Both the blueprint of a brand-up and the colors have certain meanings. The pattern is never inverse for a specific function.

Red stands for strength and passion.
Indigo blue and black correspond fear and the evil. This makeup is worn by villains and demons.
Green signals a ghosts or another kind of supernatural being.
Purple stands for nobility.

Who Was Ota Masamitsu?

Masamitsu Ota (1892-1975) designed Kabuki Histrion prints in shin hanga style in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. This artist was long in the shadow of the cracking Kabuki actor portrayer Natori Shunsen. In the 1990s prints past Masamitsu Ota have seen a kind of a renaissance in the appreciation of collectors.

Kabuki Makeup - Woodblock Prints by Ota Masamitsu

The prints are from from the anthology, "Kabuki Kumadori" (Kumadori makeups for Kabuki) Vol.ane. These kumadori designs were stored in the Ichikawa family unit's athenaeum. Ichikawa Shinjuro Three - later known as Ichikawa Danshichi (1867 - 1929) - made great effort to preserve many kumadori designs from the by. This album, created with Shin Hanga master Masamitsu Ota, has been considered as an important document for kumadori designs in Japanese performing arts.

These woodblock prints are from our archive of sold Japanese prints. The series was created in 1930 past Ota Masamitsu (1892-1975). Publisher was Ichiboshi-sha. The prints were created by using the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking method.