Fashionable
Series of Children’s Dances
(Fûryû kodomo odori zukushi, 風流子供踊り盡)
Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô
c. 1840
This series shows children as dancers against a background of colored stylized clouds. It is listed as number 142 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for assisting with this series. |
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Title: The Heron Maiden (Sagi musume, さぎ娘) Description: Child dressed
as the Heron Maiden wearing a long-sleeved kimono with a black velvet obi and holding a large open umbrella |
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Another state of the above design with the cartouche reading
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi,
子供遊) |
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Title: Sanbasô (三ばそう) Description: Children as sambasô dancers |
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Title: Hama Matsukaze (はま松かぜ) Description: Matsukaze on the beach |
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A simplified state of the above design |
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Title: Dojoji Description: |
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Another state of the above design with the cartouche reading
Children’s Games (Kodomo asobi,
子供遊) |
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Title: Shûjaku (しうじやく) Description: Girl holding
a shûjaku, a lion mask from the kabuki dance Hanabusa
Shûjaku no Shishi |
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An alternate state of the above design |
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Title: Yamauba and Kaidomaru Description: Two children dancing
with drums |
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Another state without any greenn |
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Title: Mitsu Ningyô (三ツ人形) Description: Girl carrying
two buckets NOTE: The dance-drama Sono Sugata Hana no Utsushie is commonly called Mitsu Ningyô. |
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Title: Woman of
Ohara Village (Oharame, おはら女) Description: Girl with
bundle of brushwood on her head |
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Another state of the above design with
a blue ground |
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An additional state in which the cartouche reads Kyôto Children
as Tradesmen (Keishi kodomo akindo, 京師子供商人) |
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Title: Shakkyo (石橋) Description: Child
performing the lion dance from the play Shakkyo |
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Title: Kakubei (角べい) Description: Two boys
performing the Echigo Lion Dance |
“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). CLICK
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