Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1]
A Japanese woodblock picture book printed in Edo in 1801 by the publisher Nishinomiya Shinroku, with illustrations attributed to Utagawa Toyokuni, probably for a general readership interested in kabuki actors. Its double-page scenes show everyday street, interior and garden life with figures in layered kimono, with flat colour washes, crisp black outlines and generous blank paper, offering a designer examples of compositional framing through sliding screens, staircases and blossom branches.
![Picture 1 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-7-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-8-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-9-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 10](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-10-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-12-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 14](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-14-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-15-1.webp)
![Picture 8 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-16-1.webp)
![Picture 9 of 9 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 1] (1801), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2463-17-1.webp)