Modern Select Dolls
(Tôsei mitate ningyô no uchi, 当盛見立人形之内)
1855-1856
This
group of prints illustrates carved groups of “dolls” displayed at
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Title: The
Lonely House (Hitotsuya no zu) Description:
This ever popular story tells of a mad woman who ran a boarding house where
she killed and devoured young women until one of them was saved by, the
goddess of mercy (on the left). Date: 2nd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Honmo |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of the Hag of Hitotsuya at Adachigahar Description:
This diptych has an inset of the god Fudô Myô-ô with a little boy Publisher:
Jôshû-ya Juzô |
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This triptych is another
version of the same scene, which is listed as T318 in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell
University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982). Date:
March-April 1855 Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Title:
Fashionable Living Dolls (Fûyû ningyô, 風流人形) Description:
This is a close-up version of the same group of dolls Date: 2nd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Daikoku-ya Kinnosuke NOTE: The
individual sheets comprising this triptych are each about 10 by 7 inches (25
by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban. |
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Title: Adachi-ga-hara hitotsuya no zu Description:
The Hag of the Lonely House with a female victim trussed up on the floor and
an apparition of the goddess Kwannon behind Date:
Dragon 3, April 1856 Publisher:
Ômi-ya Kyûsuke (Kyûjirô) NOTE: This
triptych is listed as T330 in Kuniyoshi:
The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, NY, 1982). |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of Sarutahiko, Uzume-no-mikoto
and the Hag of Hitostuya at Adachigahara Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Title:
Fashionable Living Dolls (Fûryû iki ningyo, 風流生人形) Description:
Uzume-no-mikoto and the Hag of Hitostuya
at Adachigahara Date: 3rd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Kazusa-ya Iwakichi |
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Title: Fashionable
Lifelike Dolls (Fûryû ningyo zukushi, 風流人形盡) Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Date: 2nd
month of 1856
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Here is a slightly
different version of the same group of dolls.
This version was intended to be viewed as individual prints since the
backgrounds are not continuous. Title:
Modern Lifelike Dolls (Tôsei iki ningyô, 當聖生人形) Date: 2nd
month of 1856 Publisher:
Ise-Yoshi Left-hand panel courtesy of
John Rose and Auction Ukiyo-e Ltd. |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of Foreign Strangers and the Maruyama Courtesans Now on View
at Okuyama in Asakusa |
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Title: Living dolls at Okuyama in Asakusa (Asakusa Okuyama iki-ningyô) Description:
Foreigners with long arms, long legs, and holes in their chests Date: 1855 |
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Title:
Lifelike Dolls of Three Beauties of the Three Kingdoms (Ningyo no uchi to ten cho san bijin) Date: 3rd month of 1856 |
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Date: 2nd month of 1856 |
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Title: The Upstairs Parlor of a Brothel (Nikai zashiki no zu) Date: 2nd
month of 1856 |
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Description: Two men trying to pull Tametomo’s giant bow Image courtesy of Louise Ariëns Kappers and C.P.J. van der Peet Japanese Woodblock Prints |
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Description: A scene in a brothel NOTE: The
figure with exposed breasts in front of a mirror is Mayuzumi,
a Yoshiwara courtesan who gave aid during a recent earthquake. |
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Title: Fashionable
Living Dolls (Fûryû ningyô) Description: A scene in a brothel Date: 1856 Publisher: Daikoku-ya Kinnosuke NOTE: The
individual sheets comprising this triptych are each about 10 by 7 inches (25
by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban. |
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Title: Figures of the Loyal Retainers (Gishi ningyô) Description: Fight between the rônin and Morono’s retainers with a
half-dressed woman on the ground Date: 2nd month of 1856 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Title: Figures of the Loyal Retainers (Gishi ningyô) Description: The rônin
attacking Kobayashi Heihachiro in Morono’s palace Date: 2nd month of 1856 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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This 1856 triptych by Kuniyoshi’s
student Yoshiiku shows nine scenes of lifelike
dolls. |
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