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- 40. Hiroshige Ando
(1797-1858)
Imazu, the 60th Station /
Imazu, la 60e station Series: Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Woodblock print
The print shows a tine of shops, and porters and travellers on the path leading through Imazu. On the left, a man is seen using another man�s pipe to light his own.
melodrama, action, and magnificently realistic stage sets, complex props and elegant costumes, Kabuki presented a colourful and glittering spectacle where the actors displayed exaggerated postures and facial expressions. Since females were banned from the plays, the performers were all males. The actors who played women were called onnaguta, and spent their entire lives practising to act and speak like women. Because of government censorship, playwrights and actors demonstrated great creativity to avoid offending the authorities on political or moral grounds. The plays constantly hinted at moral corruption, and this fact only served to make Kabuki that much more tantalizing to the repressed society of the Edo period. The samurai were expected to keep up appearances and only attend the classical and dignified Noh
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