Acrobats, top spinners, magicians, and puppeteers

 

Series

Date

Robinson

Untitled series of children performing firemen's acrobatics

c. 1837

 

Series of Fashionable Comic Spinning-tops (comic chűban) (Ryűkô dôke koma zukushi)

c. 1843

195

Premier Spinning Top Tricks by Takezawa Toji (Ichiryű kyokugoma Takezawa Toji)

c. 1843

208

Crazy Thoughts from Takezawa Toji’s Imagination (comic)

c. 1843

 

Takezawa Toji

c. 1843

 

Flowers of Edo – Tip-top Spinning Tricks

c. 1844

 

Performances by Okuyama Denji in the precinct of Asakusa Kannon Temple (Asakusa Kanzeon jinai oite kyoku Okuyama Denji)  

c. 1844

 

Yôrô Takigorô Walking on Sword Blades (Yôrô Takigorô tsurugi no hawatari)

c. 1844

 

Three Highlights of Great Spinning Top Performances (Sankyoku ukare no ôgoma)

c. 1850

 

Hayatake Torakichi

1857

214

Miscellaneous prints of acrobats, top spinners, magicians, and puppeteers  

 

114

 

 

“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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