kabuki actors - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

These people were depicted as exaggerated caricatures with large heads, crossed eyes, and grimaced frowns in prints by Sharaku. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these people who were the focus of prints called yakusha-e (“YAHK-sha-eh”). The Torii school specialized in depictions of these people, who were the most popular subjects of ukiyo-e (“oo-kee-yo-EH”) prints alongside bijin, or “beauties.”

ANSWER: kabuki actors [or actresses; accept onnagatas or oyamas]

[10m] Toyokuni I pivoted a school named for this surname to focus on actor prints after the death of its founder, Toyoharu. This surname was taken by the artist Kuniyoshi and the artist of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.

ANSWER: Utagawa [accept Utagawa school; accept Utagawa Kuniyoshi or Utagawa Hiroshige]

[10e] Hiroshige, who made actor prints as a young member of the Utagawa school, later shifted to landscapes like his “Thirty-six Views of” this landmark. Hokusai’s series of the same name includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

ANSWER: Mount Fuji [or Fugaku or Fuji-san]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	100%	30%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	100%	13%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
UC Berkeley B	UC Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
UCSD	UCLA	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Iowa	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame C	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Columbia C	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Missouri	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
ASU	TAMU	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Penn A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Penn B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	ESF A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
Duke	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	UNC D	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Carleton	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
BU	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge E	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Durham	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
LSE	Oxford C	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Southampton B	0	10	10	20