The Game of Ken,
Part II
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Title: Ryûkôken Description:
Date: 1849 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Title: Ryûkôken Description:
Date: 1849 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Title:
Three Countries’ ken (Sangoku ken) Description:
Animals playing ken Date: 1st
month of 1849 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Title: Tsuku tsuku ken Description: Date: 9th
month of 1847 Publisher: |
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Title:
Once Again the Frog Game (Aikawarazu
kairu asobi) Description: Date: 3rd
month of 1847 Publisher:
Sagin |
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Title: Hittsuku ken Description:
Date: 9th
month of 1847 Publisher: |
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Title: Irokurabe tsuku mono ken Description:
Date: 9th
month of 1847 Publisher:
NOTE: The
inscription on this print is different from the previous print. |
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Title: A
Popular Three Man Play (Ryûkô mitsu
byôshi) Description: Date: 2nd
month of 1847 Publisher:
Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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This is another state of the
above print with a simplified design. |
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Title:
Strange Ken Figures (Dôke ken awase) Description: Date: 2nd
month of 1847 Publisher:
Ibaya Sensaburô |
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This is another state of
the above print in which the background color has been eliminated Image courtesy of Richard
Illing |
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This is yet another state
in which the green ink has been replaced with blue. |
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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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