Sugoroku
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These prints are actually the
“boards” for a Japanese board game known as e-sugoroku (絵双六) or simply as sugoroku (双六).
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for assisting with this section. |
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Title: Akiba Horaiji Temple to Ise Grand Shrine,
Yamato Tour Tokaido Sugoroku (Akiba Hôraiji Ise sangû Yamato meguri
Tôkaidô dôchû sugoroku, 秋葉鳳来寺伊勢参宮大和めぐり東海道道中雙六) Size: 44 x 65 cm Date: Publisher: Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô (赤松庄太郎) |
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Title: New Edition Palace Servant’s Holiday Amusement
Sugoroku Board (新版 宿下り楽双六) Size: 36 x 63 cm Date: Publisher: Yorozu-ya Kichibei |
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Title: Iroha kana sugoroku (いろは仮名書分双六) Size: 60 x73 cm Date: Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei NOTE: This print bears the
names of two artists—Kunisada and Kuniyoshi. |
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Title: Five Confucian Virtues (仁義五常振分双六) Size: 60 x 72 cm Date: 1858 Publisher: Heikichi Yamamoto NOTE: This print bears the
names of three artists—Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, and Hiroshige. |
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Title: Good and Evil Roads (善悪道中出世寿古六) Size: Date: 7th month of 1855 Publisher: |
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Title: 大都会浄瑠璃高鼻寿語録 Size: Date: Publisher: |
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Title: 大都会浄瑠璃高鼻寿語録 Description:
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Title: 宝の山松繁栄双六 Size: Date: Publisher: |
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It is not clear
whether this is a keyblock print or a cheap monochrome edition of the above
design. |
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Title: 当年新案延喜吉相百面双六 Size: Date: 1842-1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon) Publisher: |
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Title: Mitate of the 53 Famous Stations of the
Tokaido Road Sugoroku (新板東海道五拾三次名所入見立道中双六) Size: Date: Publisher: |
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Title: New Edition Joruri (Performer) Kiyomoto
(Enjudayu II) (新版 浄瑠璃清元双六) Size: 47 x 69 cm Date: Publisher: Heikichi Yamamoto |
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Title: Entertaining Exploits of the Three Kingdoms Sugoroku
(三国興立功双六) Size: 62 x 72 cm Date: 1855 Publisher: |
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Title: Heroes of the Water Margin (水滸伝豪傑双六) Size: 52 x 91 cm Date: Publishers: Tsuru-ya Kiemon, Sano-ya Kihei,
Kaga-ya Kichiemon, and Nishimura-ya Yohachi |
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Title: 破家利口振分双六 Size: 37 x 50 cm Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: Shokindo (祥錦堂) |
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Title: 莟花江戸子数語録 Size: Date: 2nd month of 1856 Publisher: |
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Title: 蟇仙術豪傑双六 Size: Date: 11th month of 1852 Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô |
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Title: Mitate Joruri Dances Sugoroku (見立浄瑠理おどり双六) Size: Date: 1846-1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: |
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Title: Great Hero Sugoroku or Otokodate Sugoroku (Otoko
gôketsu sugoroku, 達男豪傑双六) Size: Date: 1842-1846 Publisher: |
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Title: Actors’ sugoroku (役者見立双六) Size: 52 x 38 cm Date: 1833 Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei NOTE: Kuniyoshi’ signature
is written as一勇斎 國よし 画 (Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga).
The “yoshi” character is written in hiragana as よし instead of the usual 芳. |
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Title: Famous Places Sugoroku (甲斐名所すこ六) Size: Date: Publisher: NOTE: The individual images
are signed by different artists, including Kuniyoshi. |
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Title: Heroic Hakkenden Sudoroku (Hakkenden eiyu
sugoroku, 八犬伝英勇双六) Subtitle: 柳下亭種員 撰 (at bottom right of center) Size: 48 x 70 cm Date: 1849-1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei |
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Title: Heroes from the One Hundred Stories of Bravery
of Our Country’s Sugoroku (Honcho Hyakuden Eiyuu Sugoroku, 本朝百勇伝英雄双六) Size: 36 x 75 cm (ôban triptych) Date: 1843-1846 (censor Yoshimura Gentarô) Publisher: |
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