Minneapolis Institute of Art
Shadow Figures of a Lantern and a Hawk
Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō
- Date
- c. 1842
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
As comic entertainment, shadow performances were among the many diversions, including music and dance, offered at teahouse parties during the Edo period. In the eleven-print series Improvised Shadow Performances , Hiroshige depicted figures making shadows on shōji screens by contorting their bodies. The images demonstrate how to create ingenious shadows and could easily have been used as a how-to guide for clever shadow making. Japan, Asia
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