Board game of the Flower Stage (Hanabutai atari sugoroku)

Toyohara Kunichika

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Playbills were often published at New Year's in the form of a gameboard highlighting scenes from Kabuki plays and the actors in their starring roles. Here the central scene shows actors portraying a Buddhist monk and his vision of the guardian king Fudō and two attendants.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art