The Game of Ken,

Part II

 

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description:

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description:

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Title: Three Countries’ ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Animals playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Title: Three Countries’ ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Animals playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

NOTE: This print has a different inscription than the above print.

Title: Comic ken zake at Okuyama in  Asakusa (Asakusa Okuyama dôke kenzake)

Description: Enma and Asahina playing the game of ken-zake

Date: 4th month of 1847

Publisher: Hachi

Title:

Description: Enma, Asahina and old lady (?) playing ken

Date: 4th month of 1847

Publisher: Hachi

 

NOTE: This print and the one above belong to the same untitled series.

 

Title: Tsuku tsuku ken

Description:

Date: 9th month of 1847

Publisher:

Title: Once Again the Frog Game (Aikawarazu kairu asobi)

Description:

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Publisher: Sagin

Title: Hittsuku ken

Description:

Date: 9th month of 1847

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhe

Title: Irokurabe tsuku mono ken

Description:

Date: 9th month of 1847

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhe

 

NOTE: The inscription on this print is different from the previous print.

Title: A Popular Three Man Play (Ryûkô mitsu byôshi)

Description:

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

 

This is another state of the above print with a simplified design.

Title: Strange Ken Figures (Dôke ken awase)

Description:

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Publisher: Ibaya Sensaburô

 

This is another state of the above print in which the background color has been eliminated

 

Image courtesy of Richard Illing

 

This is yet another state in which the green ink has been replaced with blue.

Title: Tsuku mono ken

Description: Ôban diptych of five characters playing ken; the figures in the left sheet are a house sparrow, a ‘living’ shamisen, and actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Benkei in old

Date: c. 1847

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô (left sheet) and Ebi-iya Rinnosuke (right sheet)

  

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