"Bugaku" Dances and Music
Kanō Eigaku · 1900
Why it's great
Dancers in colorful costume and masks perform the ancient court dance called bugaku, as musicians play. Kanō Eigaku painted the scene in a classic Japanese style with fine details. Bugaku has been performed in Japan for over a thousand years. It's a lively picture of traditional performance.
Where to see it
📍 Tokyo National MuseumTokyo, Japan
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Kanō Eigaku was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school, a family of artists that painted for Japan's rulers for hundreds of years. He worked in the late Edo and Meiji periods. He was famous for traditional pictures of Japanese life. He died in 1867.
