Miscellaneous prints of the game of ken,

Part II

 

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Title: Three Countries’ ken (Sangoku ken, 三国拳)

Description: Animals playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi (called Hori Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson)

Linhart: 33/10027

 

Title: Three Countries’ ken (Sangoku ken, 三国拳)

Description: Animals playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi (called Hori Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson)

Linhart: 34/10028

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description: The three dieties Okina Inari (left), Datsueba (in back) and O-Take-san (right foreground) playing ken

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 46/10031

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description: The three dieties Okina Inari (left), Datsueba (in back) and O-Take-san (right foreground) playing ken

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 47/10032

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Title: Popular grandfather, grandmother and older sister-ken (Jiisan basan anesan ryûkô ken)

Description: The three gods Okina Inari (right), Datsueba (left) and O-Take-san (back) playing ken

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô

Linhart: 48/10022

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Title: Popular grandfather, grandmother and older sister-ken (Jiisan basan anesan ryûkô ken)

Description: The three gods Okina Inari (right), Datsueba (left) and O-Take-san (back) playing ken

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô

Linhart: 49/10023

 

Title: Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu

Description: Datsueba is dancing to Okina Inari’s drum and Otake Dainichi’s shamisen

Date: 1849

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Linhart: 50/10029

 

Title: Grandfather, Grandmother, and a Foreigner (Jiisan basan ketôjinじいさん ばアさん じいさん ばアさん 毛唐人)

Description: Okina Inari, Datsueba, and a bearded barbarian from China playing sangoku-ken together

Date: 4th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Linhart: 51/10143

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

 

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Title: The Ken Game of the Three Spinning Tops of Takezawa Baishô and Takezawa Tôji (Takezawa Baishô Tôji sankyoku ken, 竹沢 梅升 藤治 三曲拳)

Description:

Date: 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Linhart: Not listed

 

NOTE: Takezawa Baishô and Takezawa Tôji were entertainers who performed with spinning tops.

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Title: A collection of cats (Nekotsuruken)

Description: Cats are displayed in various attitudes with the following labels:

1. Fight during cat courtship (neko no kenka wa irogurui)

2. A grey cat, a tabby cat and a spotted bobtail cat slinking off (haige shirobuchi mike choko choko)

3. Purring and begging (nodo gorogoro narashite nedarimasho)

4. Meow, meow, meow—the soft touch of flirtation (sore nyan nyago nyan nyago jaretsukuna)

5. Black cat wearing a necklace (karasu ga kubittama shibarareta)

6. Tabby cat wandering around (dora wa hôbô kakezuruten)

7. Mouse, meow, and come here!  (nezumi de nyaa kinasee)

Date: 5th month of 1847

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Linhart: 15/00005

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Title: Cat Ken (Neko no ken, 猫のけん)

Description: Cats playing the game of ken

Date: 1841

Publisher: No seal

Linhart: Not listed

 

Linhart” refers to listing in the article ‘Kuniyoshi’s Ken Caricatures between 1847 and 1853’, by Sepp Linhart in Andon, Vol. 83, 2008, pp. 5-29

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