Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2]
This is a 1801 Edo woodblock picture book by Utagawa Toyokuni, published by Nishinomiya Shinroku and Shunshōken, about kabuki actors and the theatre world. The pictures show theatre life and leisure scenes, with a designer able to take from them the compact figure groupings, layered interiors, and flat colour fields of late eighteenth-century Japanese print design.
![Picture 1 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 3](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-3-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-4-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-5-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-7-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-8-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-9-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 10](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-10-1.webp)
![Picture 8 of 8 from Teachings on the Living Images of Actors (Yakusha sangai kyō 俳優三階興) : [volume 2] (1801), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_2487-11-1.webp)