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: |
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: Description: Datsueba, Okina Inari
and Otake Dainichi Date: 1547-1850 (censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô Linhart: Not lister I am grateful to Julius Tüting for this
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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: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) 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:
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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: 1849 (censors
Kinugasa and Yoshimura) 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: 1843-1846
(censor Yoshimura Gentarô) 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. |