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[Seated couple in Kabuki play, Rohwer, Arkansas, October 21, 1944]
[Seated couple in Kabuki play, Rohwer, Arkansas, October 21, 1944]
[Seated couple in Kabuki play, Rohwer, Arkansas, October 21, 1944]

[Seated couple in Kabuki play, Rohwer, Arkansas, October 21, 1944]

Date1944
DimensionsH: 5 in, W: 7 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of the Walter Muramoto Family
Object number97.292.4K
Description1 photographic print : b&w;Young man and woman dressed in Japanese costume as a couple sitting on floor during a Kabuki performance at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, October 21, 1944. The male actor sits at right in dark striped kimono with one hand on lap and the other on shoulder of female actor who wears a patterned kimono with long furisode sleeves, wig with elaborate hair ornaments and white makeup. Footlights in foreground at right and left. Noren with two vertical slits covers doorway in background.

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