Kabuki
The
Kabuki theatre, and portraits of actors (yakusha-e), formed one of the
four most popular branches of Ukiyo-e art, along with bijin-ga
(pictures of beauties), kacho-ga (birds and flowers) and fukei-ga
(landscape). In fact, it has been suggested that the largest number of
prints produced in the Edo and Meiji periods was in the genre of
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