Special Exhibition KYOSAI: Noh and Kyogen Paintings List of Exhibits

April 20 - June 16, 2013 Room 1 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. “To”-Zukushi Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 6 Sarugaku Zu Shiki Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 61 Metropolitan Central Library; Sketchbook of Sarugaku Zu Shiki Kawanabe Kyōsai Kaga Collection 5/21-6/16 62 Mantei Ōga, illustration by Meiryō Futaba-gusa Toyohara Kunichika, Yōshū Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 66 Chikanobu and Kawanabe Kyōsai Kyōsai Gadan Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 84 Certificate for Shonichi, Menbako and Senzai Ōkura Yadayū Torashige Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 85 Certificate for Ataka Ennen-no-ai and Kaidate Kaizuke Ōkura Yadayū Torashige Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 86 Certificate for Funa-benkei, Hashi-benkei et al. Ōkura Torakatsu Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 87 Sketchbook for preparatory drawing Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 37 Noh Kyōgen Hanga-jō Kawanabe Kyōsai et al. Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 63 Kyōsai Donga Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 59 Mantei Ōga, Shinkai Ko-uta Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 64 design by Kawanabe Kyōsai Book of Noh and Kyōgen prints Kawanabe Kyōsai et al. Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 65 Kyōsai Manga Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 58 Kyōsai Suiga Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 60 Sketchbook Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 89 Kyōgen mask, Hakuzōsu Tokyo University of the Arts 4/20-5/19 88 Iwazaki Kōgyoku, Kiseru case with Shōjō design in maki-e sketch by Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 90 Room 2 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Noh, Shōjō Kawanabe Kyōsai Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art 4/20-5/19 10 Yamanba and Kintarō Kawanabe Kyōsai Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art 5/21-6/16 33 Room 4 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Sambasō Kawanabe Kyōsai Eitarō Confectionary Collection 4/20-5/19 8 Sambasō Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 9 Kyōgen, Fuku-no-kami Kawanabe Kyōsai 4/20-5/19 13 Kyōgen, Setsubun Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 17 Kyōgen, Kani-yamabushi Kawanabe Kyōsai 4/20-5/19 12 Kyōgen, Koshi-inori Kawanabe Kyōsai 5/21-6/16 15 Kyōgen, Kaminari Kawanabe Kyōsai National Noh Theatre 5/21-6/16 11 Tōjin-zumō Kawanabe Kyōsai 4/20-5/19 14 Scenes from Noh and Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Fukutomi Tarō Collection 4/20-6/16 7 Album of various subjects Kawanabe Kyōsai et al. Sasanoyuki 4/20-5/19 5 Kyōgen, Uri-nusubito Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 16 Kyōgen, Kōyaku-neri Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 18 Kyōgen, Uri-nusubito Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 19 Screen decorated with fans depicting scenes from Kawanabe Kyōsai Fukutomi Tarō Collection Noh and Kyōgen 4/20-5/19 2 The twelve months Kawanabe Kyōsai Eitarō Confectionary Collection 5/21-6/16 3 Noh play, Shakkyō 5/21-6/16 Kawanabe Kyōsai The Mitani Family Collection, Deposit: 1 Noh play, Shōjō Chiyoda city's Hibiya Library & Museum 4/20-5/19 Kyōgen, Oba-ga-sake Kawanabe Kyōsai 5/21-6/16 4 Noh play, Hagoromo Mano Gyōtei Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 28 Kawanabe Kyōsai, Annual events of the twelve months Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 20 Noh play, Shōjō Kawanabe Kyōsui Tanaka Honke Museum 5/21-6/16 23 Noh play, Shakkyō Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 22 Room 4 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Kyōgen, Sue-hirogari Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 24 Noh play, Matsukaze Murasame and Hagoromo Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 21 Kyōgen, Kasen Kawanabe Kyōun Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 25 Okina Mano Gyōtei Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 26 Noh play, Mutsura Mano Gyōtei National Noh Theatre 4/20-5/19 27 Yamanba Kawanabe Kyōsai Tokyo National Museum 4/20-5/12 29 Urashima Tarō and crane, turtle Kawanabe Kyōsai 5/14-6/16 31 Takasago Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 30 Enma and fisherman Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 32 Takasago Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 34 Takasago Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 35 Room 5 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Collection of sketch of Noh and Kyōgen masks Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 36 Noh play, Dōjō-ji, inside the temple bell Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 42 Noh play, Dōjō-ji Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 43 Noh play, Kurozuka Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 44 Daemoness Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 45 Kyōgen, Sue-hirogari, “Shite Seisei Kyōsai” Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 51 Kyōgen, Sue-hirogari, Ōkura school style Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 52 Kyōgen, Uri-nusubito Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 53 Passageway scene bearing a box of mask from Okina Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 38 Takasago Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 39 Noh play, Takasago Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 40 Noh play, Tamura Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 41 Noh play, Yamanba Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 46 Sketch of Kimono design with Shakkyō related objects Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 47 Noh play, Utou Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 55 Noh play, Mochizuki, sketch of Scenes from Noh and Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 48 Fox, sketch of Scenes from Noh and Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 49 Fox holding a key in its mouth, sketch of Scenes from Noh and Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 50 Noh play, Yuya Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 54 Noh play, Mekari Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 56 Room 6 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Program of Azuma-Noh-Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 67 Kyōgen-zukushi, Scenes from Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 68 Kyōgen-zukushi, Scenes from Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 69 Room 7 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Noh-ga Zu Shiki, collection of Noh paintings Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 57 Famous Views of the Tōkaidō: Kawanabe Kyōsai, Utagawa Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-6/16 71 Enjoying a Morning Noh Performance Yoshitora and Utagawa Hiroshige II Famous Views of the Tōkaidō: Enjoying a Noh Performance Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 70 Famous Views of the Tōkaidō: Enjoying a Midday Noh Performance Kawanabe Kyōsai, Utagawa Yoshitora Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 72 Shōjō, Tenaga (long-armed monster), gibbon and macrobrachium Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 73 Kyōsai Manga: Shōki and daemon, Storm, Sue-hirogari Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 74 Kyōsai Manga: Chinese beauty, Kaki-yamabushi, Ukai, landscape Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 75 Kitsune Tadanobu by Nakamura Shikan and Tsurigitsune, Kawanabe Kyōsai and “February” from a series “Mitate Jūnikagetsu no uchi” Toyohara Kunichika Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 77 Uchiwa-e fan painting: Kyōgen, Ka-zumō Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 78 Uchiwa-e fan painting: Kyōgen, Oni-no-mamako Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 79 Room 7 Cat. Title Artist Collection Display No. Uchiwa-e fan painting: a proof print of Kyōgen, Oni-no-mamako Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 80 Shōjō Kyōsai Manga Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 81 Fan painting, Sumida-gawa Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5/19 82 Scenes from Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsai Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 4/20-5-19 76 Japanese backgammon depicting Noh and Kyōgen Kawanabe Kyōsui Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum 5/21-6/16 83 Room 3 Jo-an Title Artist Period Collection Scene from the Noh play Takasago 16th C. Mitsui Memorial Museum Water jar with cord mark decoration 16-17th C. Mitsui Memorial Museum Tea bowl, black Raku ware, named "Menbako" Tokugawa Nariyuki (Seineiken kiln) period, 19th C. Mitsui Memorial Museum

Message We are proud and fortunate on this occasion to open the Kyosai: Noh and Kyogen Paintings exhibition, focusing on the paintings on these traditional theatrical arts by Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), selected from amongst his diverse oeuvre that spanned the end of the through the early era. Kyōsai himself appeared as an amateur on the stage, and this exhibition features his generously brushed folding screen and hanging scroll-format paintings created from those experiences of Noh and Kyōgen, along with sketches drawn backstage, prints and related materials. It is our hope that visitors to the exhibition will experience through these works this superb painter's creation of a realm that unites pictures and theatrical arts. The Mitsui family historically were passionately involved in Noh and Kyōgen, going so far as to have a Noh stage in the grounds of their residence. The Mitsui Memorial Museum houses 54 Noh masks (Important Cultural Properties, ex-Kongō family provenance), handed down in the Mitsui family collection, along with Noh robes, instruments and other important related works. In addition to the Mitsui interest in Noh and Kyōgen, Kyōsai in turn had connections with the Nihonbashi district, thus making the Mitsui Memorial Museum a most appropriate setting for this exhibition.

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