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Between Tides: Chamber Music from Japan

The Lute and White Snake of Benten (Sarasvati)

Theater Scenes

In this detail from an eighteenth-century handscroll, a shamisen player, three vocalists, and a drummer (on kotsuzumi) accompany three dancers, while commoners watch from the periphery.

Theater Scenes. By Miyagawa Choshun (1683–1753). Japan, Edo period, 18th century. Handscroll; ink and color on silk. F1975.24.

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