Miscellaneous Prints of Children,
Part I
Prints of children account for a small fraction of ukiyo-e prints. Some of theses show karako (boys in ancient Chinese dress). This genre includes the series listed as 65, 81, 109, 114, 116, 119, 123, 129, 132, 136, 138, 142, and 146 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this section.
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Series:
Modern Children’s Games (Tôsei kodomo asobi) Robinson:
119 Title:
None Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Children with fans and umbrella Date: c.
1835 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Heihachi |
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Series:
Modern Children’s Games (Tôsei kodomo asobi) Robinson:
119 Title:
None Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Date: c.
1835 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Heihachi |
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Series:
Modern Children’s Games (Tôsei kodomo asobi) Robinson:
119 Title:
None Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Monkey dance Date: c.
1835 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Series:
Modern Children’s Games (Tôsei kodomo asobi) Robinson:
119 Title: None Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Date: c.
1835 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Series:
Unidentified series of the five festivals Robinson:
Not listed Title: Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Children with battledores Date: 1842-1846 Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series:
Unidentified series of the five festivals Robinson:
Not listed Title: Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Date: 1842-1846 Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series:
Unidentified series of the five festivals Robinson:
Not listed Title: Tango (May 5) Boys’
Day Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Date: 1842-1846 Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series:
Unidentified series of the five festivals Robinson:
Not listed Title: Tanabata (七夕) Star
Festival or Seventh Night on
July 7 Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Date: 1842-1846 Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series:
unidentified series of the five festivals Robinson:
Not listed Title: The Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9) Size: Ôban
(about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description:
Children with chrysanthemums and fruit Date: 1842-1846 Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series:
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi no uchi) Robinson:
114 Title: Size: Ôban
(about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) Description:
Children playing in the snow with a snow Daruma
(Japanese snowman) Date: c.
1836 Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei Image courtesy of Richard Illing |
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Series:
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi no uchi) Robinson:
114 Title: Size: Ôban
(about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) Description:
children playing with kites and battledores Date: c.
1836 Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei |
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Series:
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi no uchi) Robinson:
114 Title: Size: Ôban
(about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) Description:
Children on the shore with fishing rods and climbing trees Date: c.
1836 Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei NOTE: This
print is by Kuniyoshi’s student and daughter Yoshitora,
but belongs to the same series. |
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Series:
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi no uchi) Robinson:
114 Title: Size: Ôban
(about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) Description:
Children at play Date: c.
1836 Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei NOTE: This
print is by Kuniyoshi’s student and daughter Yoshitora,
but belongs to the same series. |
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Series:
Children’s Dances (Kodomo odori) Robinson:
123 Title: Size: Ôban
(about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters) Description:
Children performing a scene from the kabuki
play Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to (積恋雪関扉) Date: c.
1841 Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei, |
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The above triptych is based
on this kabuki scene, with children
replacing the actors. Actors: Play: Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to (積恋雪関扉) Date: 11th
month of 1853 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Jôshû-ya Kinzô |
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Series:
None Robinson: This
triptych is listed as T49 in Kuniyoshi:
The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, NY, 1982) Title: A
Set of Heroic Children (Osanashi-dachi buyû soroi) Size:
Triptych with each panel about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size
know as ôban Description:
Below are the names of the thirty-six boys represented, each followed in
parentheses by his adult name, or other information given on the print: RIGHT- (right-hand edge, top to
bottom): Tokuju Maru
(Nitta Yoshioki), Hako-ô Maru (Soga Gorô Tokimune), Ichiman Maru (Soga Jurô Sukenari), Aza Maru (Aku-shichibyôye Kagekiyo) (middle): Shiragiku Maru (novice of Gwagôji), Uhyôye-no-suke Minamoto no Yoritomo (fifth son
of Yoshitomo), Gorô Maru
(Mimmaya no Shigemune) (left-hand side): Juô Maru (Ôtomo
no Sukune Kanamura), Onzôshi Tametomo (eighth son of
Tameyoshi), Bijô Maru (son of Minamoto no Yorinobu, Kwaidô Maru (Sakata no Kintoki), Hyôzô (Tetsu Kôdzuke, son of a farmer of Echigo) MIDDLE SHEET (right-hand side): Kana-ishi Maru (Kudô
Suketsune), Kôju Maru (son of Fujiwara no Nakamitsu),
Wada Masatora (Genshû), Taira no Tomoakira (son of Tomomori), Oniwaka Maru (Musashi-bô Benkei) (middle): Ushiwaka Maru (Kurô Hangwan Yoshitsune), Ariô Maru (page to Shunkwan), Chikudô Maru, Mukwan-no-tayû Atsumori (son of
Sammi Tsunemori) (left-hand side): Wakiya Yoshiharu (son of Yoshisuke
and younger brother of Nitta Yoshisada) , Nagasaki Jirô (page to Hôjô Takatoki), Kusunoki Masatsura (eldest son of Masashige),
Kon-ô Maru (Tosa-bô Shôshun) LEFT- (right-hand side): Kikuô Maru (page to Nôto no Kami Noritsune), Sôma Kotarô Yoshikado (son of Masakado) , Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (page to Yoshiiye),
The Rough Boy of Usui-tôge (Usui
Sadamitsu) (middle): Antoku Tennô, Tamon Maru (Kusunoki
Masashige), Kojiro Nao-iye (son of Kumagaya Naozane) (left-hand side): Koma-ô Maru (Kiso Kwanja Yoshinaka),
Hijiri Maru (page to Hioki Daizen), Kidô Maru (novice of Hiyeizan), Kichijô Maru (Ôtomo Yoshinao) Date: c.
1839-1841 Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei |
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‘Robinson’ refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).
