From 1 Apr 2023 until 4 Feb 2024

Ashmolean Museum

Gallery 29

Admission is FREE

Japanese artist Takahashi Hiromitsu creates vibrant, colorful prints showing exciting moments in kabuki, Japan’s traditional dance-drama.

Hiromitsu’s striking designs are not portraits of actual actors but visualizations of famous kabuki roles.

In kabuki, performers wearing elaborate costumes and make-up use stylized movement and song to enact melodramatic stories about love, loyalty, and the clash between duty and emotion.

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