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A catalogue accompanying an exhibition of the same name held in 2000 at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. It presents a clear picture of the diversity of Japanese instruments and their use in the Kabuki and No theatres during various festivals and within the celebrated Yoshiwara quarter. The Japanese print scholar Matthi Forrer has described the 150 prints depicting musical instruments at length. Onno Mensink has supplied commentaries to the illustrations of actual musical instruments; and the history of the collection and installation of Japanese prints at the Gemeentemuseum has been enumerated upon by Magda Kyrova. A number of other authors have contributed essays on the Kabuki and No theatres, Japanese festivals and the Yoshiwara quarter.

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Magda Kyrova studied Art History at Leiden University. She has worked as the Curator of Iconographical Collections at the Music Department of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague since 1972.

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