Actor in the No Play Tomonaga, Tsukioka Kôgyo, 1926

Actor in the No Play Tomonaga, Tsukioka Kôgyo, 1926

color woodcut, h 378mm × w 257mm More details

In No, dance is a remarkably stylized, slowly executed performance. While dancing the feet glide over the floor, never leaving the ground. In this print the stylization and stillness of a person calmly sliding over the smoothly polished wooden floor is tangible.

This work belongs to Acteurs uit het Noh theaterstuk Tomonaga (RP-P-1995-486)