Kabuki love.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
American Theatre, November, 2006
> NEW YORK CITY: You've heard of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world)--but do you know about ehon? Hop on over to "Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan," the largest exhibition of Japanese book art ever put on view, through February at the New York Public Library. These old, illustrated picture books, once reserved for monks and priests, became wildly popular during the Edo period in Japan (1603-1868), when novels about love and life as ...
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