Children in Ukiyo-e Paintings

Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum - Museum of Osaka Prints

Keisei Date no Nukigaki Drawn by Gigado Ashiyuki Portrait of wet nurse Asaoka performed by Onoe Kikugoto III and of boy named Senmatsu performed by Ichikawa Ichimatsu

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This museum exhibits ukiyo-e paintings produced in Osaka in the Edo period. Many of the ukiyo-e paintings made in Osaka were portraits of actors in kabuki plays that were being performed in theatres mainly in the Dotombori area.
Kabuki plays are almost always performed by adult male actors, who also play female roles. But there are some plays with main characters as young children, in which they attract the audience with their cuteness or braveness, and move the audience to tears.
This feature exhibition focuses on children in kabuki plays. Visitors can enjoy the ukiyo-e paintings of children playing kabuki and of adults who are always “children” to their parents even after they have grown up.