Sharaku - snapshots and notes

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Earlier this year, I visited an exhibition of works by and about Sharaku. I snuck a few snapshots on my phone (click the images to view larger versions):

From sharaku

From sharaku

From sharaku

I took home with me a brochure that listed all the items in the exhibition, but it's currently buried or misfiled under the other clutter in my "stuff to do something with" stacks, so I'll have to come back later to credit the artists.

There was also a playpen-like area for kids to draw pictures on the back of cards (to be delivered someday to kids in other countries):

From sharaku

From sharaku

In hunting around for a catalog of the original Mainichi exho, I came across a number of other allusions to Sharaku. Of particular interest to me:

Shigeo Fukuda poster (It's funny how many artists have done collages of a particular feature -- eyes, mouth, and now hair -- in their studies of Sharaku. I bet there's an essay about that somewhere...)

Korean movie proposal

exhibition history/details by the Japan Foundation, one of the sponsors. I'm impressed by where-all it's been (I nearly visited the museum in Haifa, but the timing didn't work out).

Life in Old Japan coloring book

Coloring Book of Japan

Lots of shlock on eBay, including chopsticks, tanktops, tea mugs, iPod skins, playing cards.

(I'm not doing anything with any of these just yet. Just stashing 'em here for later reference and to feed geri_chan's plotbunnies, heh)