Miscellaneous harimaze, Part II
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Series title: A Hundred
Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: 200 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
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Series title: A Hundred
Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: 200 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
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Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô Date: 8th
month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)
NOTE: These roles are from the play Higashiyama sakura
zôshi performed at the Nakamura Theater in the
8th month of 1851. I am
grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Publisher: Kojimachi Sakai-han (Sakai of Kojimachi, 麹町酒井板) printed in
top margin Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)
NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII assumed all these roles in the
play Date kurabe Okuni
kabuki, which was performed in the Kawarazaki
Theater in the 3rd month of 1849.
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Series
title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Nakamura Utaemon
IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (飜蝶丸綱五郎) Right: Nakamura Utaemon
IV as the monk Tenjitsubo (法作後ニ天日坊) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Onoe Kikujirô II as Lady Akoya (阿古屋後ニ小糸) Right: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirayufu (白夕) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as Uzu Sashichi (員佐七) Right: Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as Asa-maru who later becomes Kagekiyo (阿沙丸後ニ景清) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled Robinson: Not listed Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories
at Yotsuya) Date: 9th
month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Left: Bandô Shûka I as Hanagasumi no Ohide (花売のおひで) Center: Iwai Kumesaburô
Right: Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled Robinson: Not listed Date: 1847-1848
(censors Left: Unidentified actor as Sawai Matagorô (沢井股五郎) Center: Onoe Baikô
IV as Heisaku musume oyone (daughter of Heisaku, 郎 平作娘およね) Right: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋十兵衛) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Robinson: Not listed Description: Four actors
and a nature study Publisher: Date: c. 1830 Format: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by
25 centimeters) |
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Series
title:
A Hundred Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: Same title as
200 Description: Eight actors
in costume Date: 1846-1848 (censors
Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Format: Ôban (about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by
36 centimeters) |
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Triptych
title:
Screen with the Six Branches of Famous Painting (Meiga rokku byobu,
名画六枚屏風) Description: The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
and Bandô Shuka I (right), Ichikawa Danjûrô Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) |
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Title: None Description: The seven
gods of good luck (Shichifukujin, 七福神) imitating the
five annual festivals. Size: Horizontal
double ôban 15 by 20 5/16 in. (38.1 x 51.6 cm) Publisher: Iga-ya Kan'emon Date: 19832-1833 NOTE: This surimono bears the signatures of 10
different artists. Only Bishamonten, in the bottom center, is signed by
Kuniyoshi. |
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Harimaze triptych
portraying scenes from the kabuki
play Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 5th
month of 1854 Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Title: Viewed as a
Set of Mon (Mitate mon zukushi,
見立もんつくし) Description: Scenes from
various kabuki plays Size: A diptych
with each sheet about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as
ôban. Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 4th
month of 1852 |
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Title: Fashionable Living
Dolls (Fûryû iki ningyô, 風流生人形) Description: Ôban
triptych of scenes of lifelike dolls Size: Each sheet
about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban. Publisher: Ômi-ya Kyûjirô Date: 2nd
month of 1856 |
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For comparison, an oil on canvas
painting ‘I and My Friends’ by
contemporary Vietnamese artist Le Quang Ha, 1995-1997 |
“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, 1961). |