A sheet from ‘The Kokka’ magazine, No. 219, Tokyo, 1908. This wonderful illustrated Japanese magazine of the modernist era was published in French and English. In Eisenstein’s collection there are several issues of the magazine. This sheet (a color insert) shows a dance number in the ancient Japanese theater of the era of Genroku (1688 - 1704). The original (painted on paper for a screen), according to researchers, dates from the last third of the 17th century. The reproduction for “The Kokka” was printed in 1908 using color woodblock printing. The author, Moronobu Hishikawa, not only mastered the classical techniques of painting on silk and paper, but was also the first of the ukyyo-e woodblock printing masters, about whom at least some biographical information is known. The Japanese artist through “montage” combined two points of view: a frontal one to the stage and one from the top to the spectators behind the curtains of the box. The robes of some dancers have images of birds on them, their poses create the effect of movement. In the era of Genroku, there lived the “Japanese Shakespeare, ” Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the playwright, who managed to combine in his plays high tragedy with folk genres, responses to contemporary events with a universal moral sense.