Prints depicting Otake
Otake
(Otake Dainichi Nyorai) was a humble maidservant of the Sakuma family in
Odenma-cho in
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Title: A
Brief History of Otake Dainichi Nyorai Description:
The woman Otake, who is considered to be an incarnation of Dainichi Buddha Date: 1851 Publisher:
Kobayashi Taijirô |
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Title: Jiisan basan anesan mukashi banashi Description:
The deities Okina Inari, Datsueba and Otake Date: 1849 Publisher:
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Title:
Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu Description:
Datsueba is dancing to Okina Inari’s drum and Otake Dainichi’s shamisen Date:
1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata) Publisher:
Enshû-ya Matabei Linhart:
50/10029 |
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Title: A
Brief History of Otake Dainichi Nyorai, the Woman Otake Who is Considered to
be an Incarnation of the Dainichi Buddha Description:
Otake in heaven with a city and Date: 1849 Publisher:
Kobayashi Taijirô |
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Title: The
Legend of the Maidservant Otake Description:
Two men see Otake’s shadow and realize that she is a reincarnation of the
Nyorai Buddha Date: 1851 Publisher: |
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Title:
Objects from Kitchen Praying to Otake Dainichi Nyorai Description: Date:
1847-1850 Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hokobei |
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Title: Ryûkôken Description:
The three gods Okina Inari, Datsueba and Otake playing ken Date: 1849 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi Linhart:
46/10031 NOTE: The
small figures show the steps to a dance in he kabuki play Shinki ikken tori no hatsu koe, which
was performed in the 2nd month of 1849 at the Ichimura theater |
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Title: Ryûkôken Description:
The three gods Okina Inari, Datsueba and Otake playing ken Date: 1849 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi Linhart:
47/10032 |
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Title: The
legend of the maidservant Otake Dainichi Nyorai (於竹大日如来) Description:
Spectators praying to Otake Date: 1846-1848
(censors Maramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: サ
under a single mountain is identified as Ôda-ya Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson (Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, 1961), but as Yamashiro-ya Sahei in Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A
Compendium by Andreas Marks (Hotei Publishing, |
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Another state of the above
design, or possibly a faded version of the above. |
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Title:
Otake, the living Dainichi Nyorai (於竹大日如来の由来) Description:
Date: c.
1848 Publisher:
Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Title: The
Story of the Maidservant Otake (Hijo
Otake no Setsu) Description:
Otake preparing food Date:
1847-1850 Publisher:
Tsujiokaya Bunsuke |
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Title: The Legend
of the Maidservant Otake Dainichi Nyorai (浮世絵に書かれたお竹大日如来) Description:
Otake washing the floor Date:
1846-1852 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Title: The
Legend of the Maidservant Otake Dainichi Nyorai Description: Date: 1849 Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Series:
Stories of Wise Women and Faithful Wives (Kenjo reppuden, 賢女烈婦傳) Title: The
Maid Take-jo (Kokuji Take-jo, 嬶竹女) Description:
Take-jo (Otake Dainichi Nyorai) sprinkling grain for birds Date: c.
1841-1842 Publisher: Iba-ya
Sensaburô Robinson:
S20.20 |
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Title: お竹大日如来の出開帳 Description:
Otake looking down from heaven Date:
1846-1852 Publisher: |
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Title: Otake,
the living Dainichi Nyorai (Great sun Buddha or Vairocana) Description:
Date: c.1848 Publisher: |
“Linhart” refers to listing in the article ‘Kuniyoshi’s Ken Caricatures between 1847 and 1853’, by Sepp Linhart in Andon, Vol. 83, 2008, pp. 5-29
“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement.
