Fan Prints of Actors
An
uchiwa is a non-folding fan
consisting of paper attached to a bamboo frame.
These prints, which were intended to be glued
onto an uchiwa, are called uchiwa-e.
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Description:
Actor Date: Publisher:
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Description:
Actor Date: Publisher: |
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Series:
Enjoying the Evening Cool (Yûsuzumi) Title: Shirai Gompachi Description:
An actor in a boat on the Date: c.
1844-1845 Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Series:
Enjoying the Evening Cool (Yûsuzumi) Title: Description:
An offstage actor relaxing in a riverboat Date:
1843-1845 Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Series:
Enjoying the Evening Cool (Yûsuzumi) Title: Description:
An offstage actor relaxing in a riverboat Date:
1843-1845 Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Title: Shirai Gonpachi - A Model of
Coolness (Suzumisugata Shirai Gonpachi) Description:
Actor as Shirai Gonpachi
on the Sumida River Date:
1844-1846 Publisher:
Tsuji-ya |
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Description:
Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII in the role of Matsuwakamaru Date:
1847-1848 Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Description:
Actor as Hidari Jingoro carving a wooden statue Date:
1847-1850 Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Series:
Characters of Gallant Men in Kabuki
Dramas Title: Shirai Gompachi Description: Date: Publisher:
Yamajô |
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Series:
Characters of Gallant Men in Kabuki
Dramas Title: Teranishi Kanshin Description: Date: Publisher:
Yamajô |
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Series:
Merchants in Summer Likened to the Five Elements (Mitate go-gyô [partial title]) Title:
Metal Description:
Actor as a seller of goldfish Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Series:
Merchants in Summer Likened to the Five Elements (Mitate go-gyô [partial title]) Title:
Wood Description:
Actor as a seller of plants Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Series: Joruri Plays
Briefly Described Description:
Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII Date: Publisher:
Enshû-ya Matabei |
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Description:
Actor holding a closed fan Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Description:
Actors as a samurai and his
retainer Date: 1854 Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Description:
Kabuki scene with actor Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII in an heroic role protecting a young woman from the advances of
a ruffian Date: Publisher:
Tsuji-ya |
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Description:
Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô V (Sawamura Chôjûrô V) emerging
from under the bedcovers in an allusion to his sexual prowess Date:
1852-1853 Publisher:
Arita-ya Seiemon |
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Description:
Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV with a picture of Kwakkyo Date:
1850-1851 Publisher:
Yamajô NOTE: Kwakkyo is one of the twenty-four Chinese paragons of
filial piety. Lamenting the fact that
his aged mother was going hungry because food was being eaten by his infant
son, Kwakkyo prepared to kill the baby. While digging the grave, he discovered a
pot of gold with an attached note (or inscription) that the treasure was
meant for him. The picture shows Kwakkyo and his wife discovering the pot of gold buried
outside their home. |
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Series:
Snow, Moon and Flowers (Setsugekkwa no uchi) Title:
Moon (月) Description:
Actor Ichimura Uzaemon
XII, with insets of a full moon and the poet Abe no Nakamaro (here written ‘Nakamaru’) Date: c.
1834 Publisher: |
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Description:
Actors Sawamura Tosshô I
and Arashi Kichisabrurô
III as the wrestlers Nuregami Chôgorô
and Hanaregoma Chôkichi Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Description:
Actor Ichikawa Ebizô V (formerly Ichikawa Danjûrô VII) in the role of Yanone-gorô Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Description:
Actors as lovers on a balcony Date: Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Description:
An actor of the Ichimura family as Tadanobu Date: 1832 Publisher: |
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Description:
Date: Publisher:
Echigo-ya Chohachi |
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Description:
Date: Publisher: |
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Description:
Date: Publisher:
Echigo-ya Chohachi |
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Description:
Date: Publisher:
Ise-ya Soemon |
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Description:
Unidentified actor in the snow Date: c.
1830 Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) |
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Drawing for a fan print of
an actor with a supernatural cat |
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Description:
Drawing of actor Sawamura Sôjurô
V in the role of Yorikane Date: c.
1836 Publisher:
no seal |
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Description:
Noh actor with the mask of the
dragon king on a balcony Date: c, 1845 Seal:
Hayashi |
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