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Noh - Dance Drama of the Samurai

The Portland Art Museum

Special Exhibition

NOH

Dance Drama of the Samurai

NOV 17, 2012 – FEB 24, 2013


This special exhibition presents a selection of traditional masks, costumes, and musical instruments that evoke the solemnity and celebratory splendor of Noh, while woodblock prints illustrate the performance on stage.

The exhibition is organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Maribeth Graybill, PhD, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art.

Lenders to the exhibition: Irwin Lavenberg, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., Edwin and Ellen Reignold, and Target Stores.


Prints from The Lavenberg Collection in the Exhibition

The following thirteen prints from The Lavenberg Collection - twelve by Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927) and one triptych by Yōshū Chikanobu (1838-1912) - were selected for the exhibition.




 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôgakuzue, Tomoakira, 1900

IHL Cat. #390

Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôgakuzue, Oba ga sake, 1900

IHL Cat. #704


 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôgaku hyakuban,
Yumi yawata, 1926

IHL Cat. #152
 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôgaku hyakuban, Tsuchigumo, 1922
IHL Cat. #153
 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôgaku hyakuban,
Sotoba Komachi, 1922

IHL Cat. #154

 

 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôga taikan, Himuro
1925-1930
IHL Cat. #707
 
 Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôga taikan, Kumasaka
1925-1930

IHL Cat. #176
 
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
 Nōga taikan, Shakkyō
1926

IHL Cat. #
800

Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôga taikan, Higaki

1926
IHL Cat. #728

 Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Nôga taikan, Aya no Tsuzumi

1926-1930
IHL Cat. #753



Brochure from the Exhibition

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