Samstag, 12. März 2011


Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

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


Impression of the deluxe edition.

Dienstag, 8. März 2011


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"

Montag, 7. März 2011





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

Samstag, 5. März 2011








Hokucho
(active c. 1822-1830)

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

Dienstag, 1. März 2011


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