Review: At USC Pacific Asia Museum, portraits of actors done the Tsuruya Kokei way
(LA Times Kings)

Manga, anime and other sensations of 1990s pop culture made cosplay a fashionable pastime, but before that happened there was Tsuruya Kokei. An artist working at Tokyo´s renowned Kabukiza Theater, home to the highly stylized art of classical Japanese drama, Kokei made portraits of the all-male...