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Actor in the Noh Play Tomonaga
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Actor in the Noh Play Tomonaga

Tsukioka Kôgyo · 1926 · color woodcut; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

In No, dance is a remarkably stylized, slowly executed performance. While dancing the feet glide over the floor, never leaving the ground. In this print the stylization and stillness of a person calmly sliding over the smoothly polished wooden floor is tangible.

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Credit lineActeur in het no-theaterstuk Tomonaga. 1926. Tsukioka Kôgyo. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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