Paintings of miscellaneous subjects
Part I
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Description: Two Kamuro waiting
for a courtesan Size: 33 x 52 cm Schaap: 1.10 Location: Private collection |
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Description: The Sengumi squad of firemen Size: 143 x 250 cm Schaap:
2.32 Date:
c. 1833 Location: Sensôji (Asakusa Kannon Temple), Tokyo |
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Description: Male and
female servants spring cleaning Size: 22 x 29 cm Schaap:
2.33 Date: Location: Private
collection, London |
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Description: Scene at the Mishima
inn, from the novel Tôkai-dôchû Hizakurige Size: 65 x 111 cm folding
screen Schaap:
2.34 Date: Location: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Awa no Jûrôbei and his family Size: 54 x 112 cm Schaap:
2.35 Date: Location: |
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Description: Entertainers,
vendors, and other street characters Size: 158.5 x 175 cm Schaap:
2.36 Date: Location: Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Actors off
stage on a summer evening Size: 40 x 60 cm Schaap:
3.37 Date: Location: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Size: 60 x 32.5 cm Schaap:
3.38 Location: Gerhard Pulverer
collection, Germany |
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Description: Bust portrait
of kabuki actor Iwai Hanshirô in the role of
Miuraya Agemaki Size: 35.5 x 30.5 cm Schaap:
3.39 Date: Location: |
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Description: Kabuki
actors as the six poetic immortals Size: 110 x 58 cm Schaap:
3.40 Date: Location: Japan Ukiyo-e
Museum, Matsumoto |
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Description: Half-length
portrait of actors Ichikawa Ebizô V and Ichikawa
Danjûrô VII Size: Schaap:
3.41 Date: Location: NOTE: This is a triptych
of ink and color on silk hanging scrolls. |
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Description: Actor Bandô Shûka in the kabuki
play Musume Dôjôji Size: Schaap:
3.42 Date: Location: |
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Description: Three Chinese
warriors from the novel Shui hu zhuan (The
Suikoden) Size: 121 x 75 cm Schaap:
4.43 Date: c. 1830 Location: Shinshôji, Narita-san |
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Description: Two Chinese
warriors (Kumonryû Shishin
and Chôkanko Chintatsu) Size: 84 x 166 cm Schaap:
4.44 Date: Location: The Grolier
Club, New York City I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description: Empress Jingû and Takenouchi no Sekue Size: 88 x 133 cm Schaap:
4.45 Date: 1834 or earlier Location: Awajima jinja shrine, Wakayama |
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Description: A banner for
the Boys’ Festival decorated with Kintoki and Yamauba Size: Schaap:
4.46 Date: Location: |
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Description: The Chinese
warrior Jiuwenlong Shijin (Kumonryû
Shishin, 九紋龍史進)
from the novel Shui hu zhuan (The
Suikoden) Size: 18 x 47 cm Schaap:
4.47 Date: Location: Tokyo
National Museum |
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Description: The robber Kidômaru disguised in an ox skin Size: 120 x 53 cm Schaap:
4.48 Date: Location: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description:
Soga no Gorô riding a galloping horse Size:
27 x 34 cm Schaap:
4.49 Date: Location: Isao Toshihiko collection, Japan |
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Description: Fujiwara no Yasumasa
playing the flute, with the robber Hakamadare Yasusuke Size: 45.0 x 69.5 cm Schaap:
4.50 Date: c. 1848 Location: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Zhong Kui (Shôki) and two demons Size: 101 x 36 cm Schaap:
4.51 Date: Location: Kumamoto
Prefecture Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Landscape
with warriors and mountains in the distance Size: 96.5 x 29 cm Schaap:
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Description: Votive tablet
of the Lonely House (Hitotsuya) Size: 180 x 310 cm Schaap:
4.53 Date: 1855 Location: Sensôji (Asakusa Kannon Temple), Tokyo I am grateful to Robert Pryor for the following
information about this votive tablet: Kinoshita Naoyuki states
the tablet was donated to the Sensoji by
the owner of the Okamoto Brothel, who had commissioned the painting from
Kuniyoshi. A version of the story of the Hag of Adachi-ga-Hara is
linked to the founding of the Sensoji,
explaining what may seem to have been an odd choice of a subject for a
religious donation. According to Yoshiiku,
Kuniyoshi was inspired by three different styles in painting this
tablet― idealized Buddhist
style for the goddess Kannon (left), naturalistic Western style for the hag,
and flat ukiyo-e style for the young woman (right). Kuniyoshi had depicted this story several
times previously, from as early as c. 1839-1841. In 1855 he
produced both this votive plaque and then a print version of it (shown
below). Apparently, the plaque caused quite a stir, pro and con,
and was the inspiration for the Matsumoto Kisaburo mannequin
display at the same temple precinct the following year. Kuniyoshi then
produced prints
of the mannequin display, including several reiterations of this scene.
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Description: Night attack
of the Soga brothers Size: 214 x 275 cm Schaap:
4.54 Date: c. 1856 Location: Asakusa
Temple (Sensôji), Tokyo |
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Description: Ink and color
on a wooden votive plaque of the rebirth of the monk Yûten Size: Schaap:
4.55 Date: c. 1856 Location: Shinshôji, Narita-san, Japan |
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“Schaap” refers to
listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese
Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing,
Leiden, 1998)
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