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Return to Photography in Japan Between the Wars (1920–1940)
| Taikichi Irie - Bunraku Puppet Theater (Master Yoshida on left) |
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| Ref.#: 6129 |
| Price: POR |
| Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print |
| Image Date: 1930s |
| Print Date: 1930s |
| Dimensions: 8.5 x 7 in. (216 x 178 mm) |
| Photo Country: Japan |
| Photographer Country: Japan |
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| Description: Images such as this one of Japan’s 300-year-old tradition of Bunraku Pupper Theater are rare indeed. Master puppeteer Tamao Yoshida (a Living National Treasure) who won the prestigious Kyoto Prize in 2003, is pictured on the left. Says the Inamori Foundation, issuer of the Prize: “Mr. Tamao has contributed to Bunraku’s current status as the world’s most highly developed and refined form of puppet theater.” And also: "Going beyond the mere transmission of puppetry techniques, he has added original and creative insight in puppet movement, with a virtuosity cultivated over the course of many years through a deep knowledge of the scripts and essence of the roles."
Irie captures him here as a young man, in the early days of plying his craft.
All the other known prints from this series are believed destroyed. Irie, a well-respected lensman who founded a museum in Nara, Japan (his birthplace), has work in the permanent collections of the Yokohama Museum of Art and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. His photo retail shop in Osaka was decimated by U.S. bombing raids in 1945.
Japanese inscription on verso. 1 |
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