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| Keywords: Ichimura uzaemon xv 1930.JPG en This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken at the Kabukiza in 1930 in Tokyo He is dressed as Togashi the aristocrat in charge of the road barrier in the play Kanjincho or the Subscription List During the 1930s Uzaemon played opposite another popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro VII who played Musashibo Benkei the warrior monk and retainer of Minamoto Yoshitsune Also in the picture is Ito Shinsui and possibly Hasui Kawase both artists who were part of the revival at the time of the Ukiyo e woodblock print They are surrounded by other dignitaries both Japanese and Western The Western woman may possibly be an actress It was around this time that Kabuki as an art form was being popularized in the West and shortly before Charlie Chaplin visited Japan in 1932 and saw the Kabuki at the Minamiza in Kyoto and the Kabukiza in Tokyo where he met Nakamura Kichiemon I Chaplin was and is still extermely popular in japan and his film 'City Lights' was adapted to Kabuki being called Komori no Yasusan or Batman Yasu Also in the photograph are Itō Shinsui - 伊 深水 4 February 1898 8 May 1972 Ukiyo e woodblock printer and Nihonga artist Born Itō Hajime 伊 looking over Uzaemon's shoulder and Hasui Kawase - 巴水 1883-1957 Painter of Shin Hanga新版画 new prints style of revived woodblock printing rear and between the two women author 1930 Uzaemon Ichimura XV Kawase Hasui Ito Shinsui PD-Japan-oldphoto ImageNote 1 266 161 46 67 900 696 2 Hasui Kawase ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 449 152 85 82 900 696 2 Ichimura Uzaemon ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 543 166 63 71 900 696 2 Itō Shinsui ImageNoteEnd 3 | ||||
