Miscellaneous harimaze, Part II
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Series title: A Hundred
Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: 200 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
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Series title: A Hundred
Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: 200 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
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Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô Date: 8th
month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)
NOTE: These roles are from the play Higashiyama sakura
zôshi performed at the Nakamura Theater in the
8th month of 1851. I am
grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Publisher: Kojimachi Sakai-han (Sakai of Kojimachi, 麹町酒井板) printed in
top margin Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)
NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII assumed these eight roles
in the play Date kurabe Okuni
kabuki, which was performed in the Kawarazaki
Theater in the 3rd month of 1849.
The image in the left lower corner is Danjûrô off stage.
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Another state of the above design with Ichikawa Danjûrô (市川団十郎) written in
the left lower box |
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Series
title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Nakamura Utaemon
IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (飜蝶丸綱五郎) Right: Nakamura Utaemon
IV as the monk Tenjitsubo (法作後ニ天日坊) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Onoe Kikujirô II as Lady Akoya (阿古屋後ニ小糸) Right: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirayufu (白夕) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled series of one actor in two different roles Robinson: Not listed Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Left: Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as Uzu Sashichi (員佐七) Right: Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as Asa-maru who later becomes Kagekiyo (阿沙丸後ニ景清) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled Robinson: Not listed Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories
at Yotsuya) Date: 9th
month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Left: Bandô Shûka I as Hanagasumi no Ohide (花売のおひで) Center: Iwai Kumesaburô
Right: Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series
title:
Untitled Robinson: Not listed Date: 1847-1848
(censors Left: Unidentified actor as Sawai Matagorô (沢井股五郎) Center: Onoe Baikô
IV as Heisaku musume oyone (daughter of Heisaku, 郎 平作娘およね) Right: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋十兵衛) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Robinson: Not listed Description: Four actors
and a nature study Publisher: Date: c. 1830 Format: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by
25 centimeters) |
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Series
title:
A Hundred Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相) Robinson: Same title as
200 Description: Eight actors
in costume Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Format: Ôban (about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by
36 centimeters) |
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Triptych
title:
Screen with the Six Branches of Famous Painting (Meiga rokku byobu,
名画六枚屏風) Description: The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
and Bandô Shuka I (right), Ichikawa Danjûrô Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) |
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Title: None Description: The seven
gods of good luck (Shichifukujin, 七福神) imitating the
five annual festivals. Size: Horizontal double
ôban 15 by 20 5/16 in. (38.1 x 51.6 cm) Publisher: Iga-ya Kan'emon Date: 19832-1833 NOTE: This surimono bears the signatures of 10
different artists. Only Bishamonten, in the bottom center, is signed by
Kuniyoshi. |
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Harimaze triptych
portraying scenes from the kabuki
play Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 5th
month of 1854 Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Title: Viewed as a
Set of Mon (Mitate mon zukushi,
見立もんつくし) Description: Scenes from
various kabuki plays Size: A diptych
with each sheet about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as
ôban. Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 4th
month of 1852 |
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Title: Fashionable
Living Dolls (Fûryû iki ningyô, 風流生人形) Description: Ôban triptych
of scenes of lifelike dolls Size: Each sheet
about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban. Publisher: Ômi-ya Kyûjirô Date: 2nd
month of 1856 |
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For comparison, an oil on canvas
painting ‘I and My Friends’ by
contemporary Vietnamese artist Le Quang Ha, 1995-1997 |
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“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, 1961).
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