Signature: Ho?

Osaka ehon page?

Yoshitaki
(1841-99)

print proof
chuban diptych

reference Kunikazu

Yoshitaki
(1841-99)


Actor/play: Arashi Rikan IV as Okiku in Banshû sarayashiki, Naka Theater, Osaka
Title: Gojo no uchi: Shin ("Five Virtues: Faith")
Date: 8/1867
print proof / chuban

Thanks to blogger edward for the informations about this print.

The print:



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Sadahiro after Hirosada



Hirosada



Unknown artist after Hirosada



Hirosada



Overview

Drawings attributed to Hirosada.





more infos soon

© Ikeda Bunko Library Osaka, 1983

Hokushu
(active c.1802-1832)

Signature: Shunkosai Hokushu (with his artist seal)
Actor/Play: (right) Ichikawa Danzo V as Yashichi, (missing left sheet) Nakamura Matsue III as Otaka and Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Mokuemon from Kana-dehon Chushingura performed at the Kado Theatre
Date: 3/1824
Publisher: ?
Format: oban
Lit.: Hokushu to Toyokuni: Kamigata Edo yakusha-e meishô ten by Matsudaira, Susumu, Ikeda Bunko Library Osaka 1983, pl.48

© Ikeda Bunko Library Osaka, 1983


Toyokuni I
(1769-1825)

Signature: Toyokuni ga
Actor / play: (left) Bando Mitsugoro III as Kumagai Jiro Naozane (right) Iwai Kumesaburo II as the prince Atsumori; in the play Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki performed at the Nakamura-za / Edo
Date: 9/1820
Publisher: Eikyudo
Censor's seal: Kiwame
Dimension: oban
Lit.: Hokushu to Toyokuni: Kamigata Edo yakusha-e meishô ten by Susumu Matsudaira, Ikeda Bunko Library Osaka 1983, pl.111

"September 1820: premiere at the Nakamuraza of the 7-role hengemono "Setsugekka Nagori no Bundai". All the seven dances are played by Mitsugorô. Three dances ("Asazuma Bune", "Makasho" and "Tama Usagi") are still part of the current Kabuki repertoire. He also plays the role of the warrior Kumagai Jirô Naozane in the drama "Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki". All these items are in fact his onagori kyôgen for he was about to depart from Edo to play in Ôsaka."
quoted from kabuki21.com

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Signature:
Actor / play:
Title: Kagamiyama Sugatausushi
Date:
Dimension: chuban diptych / standard edition
Lit.:


Impression of the deluxe edition.

Sadahiro
(active after 1850)

mameban deluxe diptych.each approx. 8 x 11 cm

Natakmura Utaemon IV (right) as the blind hero Kagekiyo and Nakamura Tamashichi I as his daughter Musume Hitomaru.

After Hirosada's chuban diptych "Megami no Kagekiyo"

Toyokuni I
(1769-1825)

Signature: Toyokuni ga
Actor / play: Matsumoto Koshiro V as Ono Kudayu; in the play Taiheiki chushin koshaku by Chikamatsu Hanji and others performed at the Nakamura-za in the 9th month of 1818.
Date: 9/1818
Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon
Censor's seal: Kiwame
Dimension: oban

Hokucho
(active c. 1822-1830)

Images are from two different triptychons.
more info and better pics coming soon

Hokuei
(active c.1824-1837)

more infos soon

Kiyosada
(active 1848)

Actor/Play: Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as the monkey leader Yorjiro in the play Horikawa
Signature: Kiyosada with o-no-Zo seal
Printer: Edo Jinsho (signature at left margin)
Date: 1848
Format: chuban
Lit.: Hendrick Lühl "Osaka-Holzschnitte", Harenberg, 1982, p.130

Someone had painted an additional pupil into the right eye...:



After I saw the print in "Osaka Kagami" by Jan van Doesburg I tried my best to restore the original state with watercolors:



Shigeharu
(1803-1853 / active after 1821)

Actor/Play: Nakamura Utaemon III as Kato Masakiyo in the play Keisei Asoyama Zakura,
performed at Kato (or Kado no Shibai) theatre 1/1827
Lit. : Jan van Doesburg "Osaka Kagami", Huys den Esch, The Netherlands, 1985

"January 1827: Tomoemon plays the roles of Kara no Chishima no Kami, the boatman Yoichibei and Fukagusa Jinsaku in the drama "Keisei Asoyama Zakura", which is produced by Arashi Kichinosuke in Ôsaka at the Naka no Shibai, in competition with the Kado no Shibai where the same play is staged with a different line-up."
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Hokushu
(active c.1802-1832)

Signature: Hokushu
Actor/Play: Ichikawa Ebijuro I as Yamagataya Gihei, (missing right sheet) Arashi Tomisaburo II as Musume Oume of the Chigiri, from the play Keisei Somewake Tazuna
Date: 1/1822
Publisher: Honsei / Tamaoki
(cartouche right edge) Nimai zuzuki
Format: oban tate-e 15.25" x 10.25"
Lit.: Hokushu to Toyokuni: Kamigata Edo yakusha-e meishô ten by Matsudaira, Susumu, Ikeda Bunko Library Osaka 1983

another version found at osakaprints.com