A Study of Acting and Direction of Yaro kabuki Using Overseas Pictoral Material

对于歌舞伎矢郎的表演和导演的研究来说，图像资料是非常重要的。海外的博物馆和图书馆拥有大量这类图片资料。通过田野调查，我能够展示早期歌舞伎的一些实际情况。我认为，在芝加哥博物馆发现的最古老的版本“Yakusha Ye-zukushi”，其中包含了许多世纪后半叶歌舞伎舞台上的照片，对研究领域做出了巨大贡献。通过这一研究，我能够表明，歌舞伎的基本特征认为，描绘时尚的习俗是重要的

Pictorial material is regarded as important for the study of acting and direction of Yaro kabuki. A great number of such pictorial materials are owned by museums and libraries overseas. Through field work research, I was able to show some of the actual conditions of early kabuki. I feel that the discovery of the oldest edition of “Yakusha Ye-zukushi”, which contains many pictures from kabuki stages of the latter half of the 17th century, at the Chicago museum, has greatly contributed to the field of study. Through this study, I was able to suggest that the fundamental character of kabuki considers the depiction of fashionable customs as important