A kabuki theatre during a performance: three actors from the Ichikawa line perform a traditional play to an inattentive audience. Colour woodcut by Kuniume, 1884.

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1884
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37683i
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A kabuki theatre during a performance: three actors from the Ichikawa line perform a traditional play to an inattentive audience. Colour woodcut by Kuniume, 1884. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The audience wears mixed dress, both Western and traditional Japanese dress; some men still have shaved heads as required in the Tokugawa period (pre 1868), others have full heads of hair: some spectators wear western hats

Most of the audience are ignoring the performance and are talking, reading and turning away from the stage

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Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1884.

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1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

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Seisai Kuniume-ga Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal and set title

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Wellcome Collection 37683i

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