EditorialA Box at the Kabuki Theater, from the illustrated book "Guide to the Actors' Dressing Rooms (Yakusha gakuya tsu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1799. Dimensions: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (left sheet); 16.4 x 22.4 cm (right sheet). Colo...
EditorialThe author Tom Lin, who is making his debut with “The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” in Davis, Calif., May 28, 2021. (Jenna Garrett/The New York Times)
EditorialFour Chinese merchants playing the game of odd or even (Tui-Tsu) in summer clothes, China, 19th century. A man uses a stick to move the cash bets on the table. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Carocci after Egor Fedorovich Timkovski from Giulio Fe...
EditorialCourtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from Courtesans of the Three Capitals: A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui), c. 1748, Okumura Masanobu, Japanese, 1686-1764, Japan, Color woodblock print, ...
EditorialCourtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from Courtesans of the Three Capitals: A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui), c. 1748, Okumura Masanobu, Japanese, 1686-1764, Japan, Color woodblock print, ...
EditorialA Box at the Kabuki Theater, from the illustrated book "Guide to the Actors' Dressing Rooms (Yakusha gakuya tsu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1799. Dimensions: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (left sheet); 16.4 x 22.4 cm (right sheet). Colo...
EditorialA Box at the Kabuki Theater, from the illustrated book "Guide to the Actors' Dressing Rooms (Yakusha gakuya tsu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1799. Dimensions: 19.5 x 24.1 cm (left sheet); 16.4 x 22.4 cm (right sheet). Colo...
EditorialPair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki), ca. 1750, Japanese, Gold, L. of each 2 in. (5 cm); W. of each 1/2 in. (1.3 cm); Wt. of each 0.3 oz. (8.5 g), Sword Furniture-Menuki, Tsu Jumpo (Jimpo) (Japanese, 1721?1762).
EditorialHISTORIA DEL IMPERIO CHINO. PEKIN. Vista del TSU-KIN-TCHING (PALACIO DEL EMPERADOR DE LA CHINA). Grabado del "Semanario Familiar Pintoresco" por Gerard, 1878.