Modern Select Dolls
(Tôsei mitate
ningyô no uchi)
1855-1856
This
series illustrates carved groups of ‘dolls’ displayed at
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Title: The
Lonely House (Hitotsuya no zu) Description:
This ever popular story tells of a mad woman who ran a boarding house where
she killed and devoured young women until one of them was saved by, the
goddess of mercy (on the left). Date: 2nd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Honmo |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of the Hag of Hitotsuya at Adachigahar Description:
This diptych has an inset of the god Fudô Myô-ô with a little boy Publisher:
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This triptych is another
version of the same scene, which is listed as T318 in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell
University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982). Date:
March-April 1855 Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of the Hag of Hitotsuya Description:
This is a close-up version of the same group of dolls Publisher:
Daikoku-ya Kinnosuke |
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Title: Adachi-ga-hara hitotsuya no zu Description:
The Hag of the Lonely House with a female victim trussed up on the floor and
an apparition of the goddess Kwannon behind Date:
Dragon 3, April 1856 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Kyûsuke (Kyûjirô) NOTE: This
triptych is listed as T330 in Kuniyoshi:
The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, NY, 1982). |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of Sarutahiko, Uzume-no-mikoto and the Hag of Hitostuya at
Adachigahara Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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This is a slightly different
version of the above. |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls from the Suikoden Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô
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Here is a slightly
different version of the same group of dolls.
This version was intended to be viewed as individual prints since the
backgrounds are not continuous. Title: Modern
Lifelike Dolls (Tôsei iki ningyô) Date: 2nd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Ise-Yoshi Left-hand panel courtesy of
John Rose and Auction Ukiyo-e Ltd. |
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Title: Living dolls at Okuyama in Asakusa (Asakusa Okuyama iki ningyô) |
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Title: Lifelike Dolls of Three Beauties of the Three
Kingdoms |
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Date: 2nd month of 1856 |
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Title: The Upstairs Parlor of a Brothel (Nikai zashiki no zu) Date: 2nd
month of 1856 |
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Description: Two men trying to pull Tametomo’s giant bow Image courtesy of Louise Ariëns
Kappers and C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Woodblock Prints |
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