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: 1847 (censors
Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
NOTE: Asama and Umegae are from Fukujukai muryo denki, Ushiwakamaru
and Chienai are from Gonin otoko ikiji no hana kurabe, and Matsuwaka
Maru and Oren are from Butai no Hana Yayoi no Irotoki. |
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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: 1847 (censors
Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
NOTE: Nikki, Menosuke, and
Takao are from Sendai gashi iro
no funakomi, Mohei is
from Fukujukai muryo
denki, and Jutaro and
Kanpei are from Chushin
meimei kikigaki zosho. |
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Title: Cut Pictures
to Keep Your Hands Amused (Teasobi kiriwaza-e, 手遊切技繪) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) 手遊切技繪 I may be wrong but I would have thought Teasobi
kiriwaza-e Hand Play+Cutting
Skill+Picture=Skilful-.jpg, |
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This unsigned drawing may be for one of
the above series. |
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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. |
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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 these eight roles
in the play Date kurabe Okuni
kabuki, which was performed in the Kawarazaki
Theater in the 3rd month of 1849.
The image in the left lower corner is Danjûrô off stage.
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Series
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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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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: 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 (花賣のおひで) Center: Iwai Kumesaburô
Right: Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Tabakoya Genshichi
(烟草屋源七) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled Robinson: Not listed Play: Igagoe Yomikiri kôshaku (伊賀越読切講釈) Date: 9th
month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Left: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Sawai Matagorô
(沢井股五郎) Center: Onoe Baikô
IV as Heisaku musume
oyone (daughter of Heisaku,
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
from left to right: Onoe Kikugorô III, Iwai
Tojaku, Bandô Mitsugorô IV, Ichikawa Ebizô V,
and a nature study Publisher: Date: c. 1831 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 Play: Chushin meimei
kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵) Description: Eight actors
in costume Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Format: Ôban (about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by
36 centimeters)
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Title: A Hundred
Amusing Sketches of Faces (Giga sho hyakumen, 戯画笑百面) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô Date: |
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Triptych
title:
Six Famous Painting (Meiga rokku byobu, 名画六枚屏風) Description: Left sheet:
Three blind men with an elephant and Daruma Center sheet:
Sawamura Sojûrô V as Saigyo
contemplating Mt. Fuji, Ichihawa Kuzô II as a yakko
(servant) in Otsu-e style, and Onoe Baikô IV as a
wood gatherer Right sheet:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Narihira
at Yatsuhashi and Bandô
Shuka I as a courtesan reading 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 |
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“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, 1961).
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