Shunkyô
(Active circa 1813-14)

Arashi Kichisaburo II as Miyagi Asojiro

Play: Keisei Tsukushi no Tsumakoto
Performed: 1/1814
Signature: Shunkyo ga with a seal showing a tortoise
Publisher: Shiocho
Date: 1814

Lower part of a vertical oban diptychon. The upper part shows Sawamura Tanosuke II as Musume (=girl) Miyuki.

All informations about this print from:
"Helden Schurken Kurtisanen" by Hendrick Lühl p.17 no.19

Shigenobu
(1787-1832)

Osaka Shinmachi Nerimono
Costumes of the Shinmachi District of Osaka

Signature: Toto (from the eastern capital=Edo) Yanagawa Shigenobu.
Seal: Yanagawa
Date: 1822
oban tate-e

Kiyonaga
(1752-1815)

Title: Hinagata Wakana no Hatsu-moyo / New designs fresh as spring leaves
or Women in New-Year Fashion Dresses
Oiran: Segawa
House: Matsuba-ya / House of the Pinetree
Kamuro: r. Sasano, l. Takeno
Publisher: Nishimura Eijudo
Date: ca. 1780's

Lit.: Tokio National Museum Catalogue Vol.II, No. 1436
Other images from this series: Ukiyo-e Taisei Vol.III, No. 73
and Ukiyo-e Taikei Vol.IV, No. 116
Julia Meech, Jane Oliver "Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860", Asia Society and Japanese Arts Society of America, 2008, p.119 fig. 83

A re-carved edition from the 20th centurry showing how the colors may have looked like found at ARTELINO.

From right to to left:
Isamigoma no Tokuzo, Banreskisha Ichinosuke, Hokoku no Gonza, Iwai Enjiro and Mizukami no Kisaburo





TOYOKUNI III / KUNISADA
(1786 - 1865)

Kimonos patterned with different Genji symbols. Blooming iris flowers and buildings in the background.

Signature / Signatur: Toyokuni ga
Publischer / Verleger: Yamada-ya Shojirō
Carver's seal / Holzschneidersiegel: hori Take (Yokogawa Takejiro)
Date / Datierung: 4/1858
Dimension / Format: oban tate-e, 5 sheets, each approx 24,4 x 36 cm

Hidemaro
(active in the early 19th century)

Pupil later assistant of Utamaro

A puppet-player

Signature: Hidemaro ga
Size: 22,8 x 17,3 cm

Yoshitaki
(1841-99)

Three sheets from the series Imayô Genji gojûshi jô no uchi (Set of Fifty-four sheets — modern-style Genji).

chapter 15. Yomogyu
chapter 19. Usugumo
chapter 33. Fuji-no-uraba

Date: 1/1869
Format: Chûban, deluxe edition 25.0 x 36.3 cm

Yoshitaki
(1841-99)

Series: Twelve Zodiac Signs

1.) Ox
2.) Rat

Date: c.1860
Size / Chuban: 9.5" x 7"
Signature: Oju Yoshitaki hitsu
Embellished with black lacquer, gold and silver pigments

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)

Five Warriors Likened to Five Famous Horses of Great Men

五将軍見立五人男馬超

Actor / Schauspieler: Kanjaku (poetry name of Nakamura Utaemon IV)
Role / Rolle: Token Gombei
Signature / Signatur: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
Publisher / Verleger: Ise-ya Sanjuro
Date / Datierung: 1843
Dimension / Format: oban tate-e, 25.5 x 36 cm
From the collection of B.W. Robinson, the author of "Kuniyoshi - Warrior Prints"

Munehiro
(active c. 1850-70)

Actor: Mimasu Inemaru I as Nagoya Sanza (Sanzaburô / 名古屋山三郎, left) and Ichikawa Saruzo I as (Fuwa) Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, right)
Play: Keisei Inazuma Zoshi
performed at Wakadaju Theatre 9/1855
lit. Ikeda Bunko Vol.III no.309
chuban, 17 x 24,5 cm

Yoshitoyo
(1830-66)
A pupil of Kunisada, later of Kuniyoshi, who worked in Edo and Osaka

A chuban deluxe diptych and two different versions of the left sheet.
The left one is the deluxe edition with silver and gold pigments, the right one a standard edition.

Role: Sasano Gonza
Play: Gonza Gonpachi Hanashimo Yoshiwara
performed: c.1855
lit. Waseda 6-355

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Title: Iwami Buyuden (Act 1)
Actor: Ichikawa Ebizo V as Hirose Gunzo
Play: Iwami Jutaro
performed Naka Theatre 3/1855
right sheet of a diptych
lit. Waseda 6-355

The complete diptych. Thanks to Mr.G.J. for the better picture.

ANDO HIROSHIGE
(1797 - 1858)

Kanadehon Chushingura

The Storehouse of Loyalty
Schatzhaus der treuen Vasallen

Act 1
The Hachiman Temple looking out over the Bay of Yedo. Moronao turning his back on Wakasa and Yenya, and walking away; Lady Kawoyo behind them looking at the retreating Moronao.

Akt 1
Der Hachiman Tempel, im Hintergrund die Bucht von Yedo. Moronao wendet Wakasa und Yenya den Rücken zu und geht. Lady Kawoyo steht hinter ihnen und sieht dem wegschreitenden Moronao nach.

Signature / Signatur: Hiroshige ga
Publisher/ Verleger: Marusai
Censor's seals / Zensorensiegel: Kinugasa, Watanabe
Date / Datierung: 1842-1853
oban yoko-e, lower margin trimmed / unterer Rand fehlt

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)

Fujito hama Sasaki Moritsuna etc.

Sasaki Moritsuna and his troops fording the Inland Sea at sunrise to attack the Taira at Kojima Castle in Bizen on November 1, 1184


Signature: Kuniyoshi ga, with Kiri seal
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei
Date: Late 1849-1850
oban tate-e triptych
see in B.W. Robinson "Warrior Prints" T220
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Signature: Kiyo Sada aratame Masunobu
Role: Nikki Danjo
Serie: Kokin Komaiden / Stories from the past and now
Date: 1848

SADAHIDE
(1807 - 1873)

Great procession with hundreds of people
Prozession mit hunderten von Menschen

Signature / Signatur: --- Sadahide ga
Publisher / Verleger: Kobayashi Taijirō (Bunseidō)
Date / Datum: c.1850's
Censor's seal / Zensorsiegel: Mera
Dimension / Format: oban tate-e triptych each sheet approx 35 x 25 cm

Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)


The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV in a scene from the Kabuki play Ki-ichi, performed in the 8th 1849

Der Schauspieler Nakamura Utaemon IV in einer Rolle des Kabuki Stücks Ki-ichi. aufgeführt im achten Monat des Jahres 1849

Signature / Signatur: Kuniyoshi ga, with / mit Kiri seal / Siegel
Publisher / Verleger: Ebiya Rinnosuke
Date / Datierung: c.1849
Dimension / Format: oban tate-e, 23.5 x 35 cm

Aus der Sammlung von B.W. Robinson, Autor des Buches "Kuniyoshi - Warrior Prints".

The complete triptych:
(l.to r.): Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kiichi Hogen, Bando Shuka as Tarozo aka Ushiwakamaru
and Sekisanjuro II as Chienai aka Yoshioka Kisanta

Katsushika Hokusai
(1760 - 1849)

Ehon Saiyuki

Illustrated book, 38 pages, three doublepages with sumizuri-e woodblock prints.
Some later watercoloring on one page and japanese writing on the last page. With age wear, flaws, stains and marks. One wormtrace working through half of the book at corners. Moderate state. Binding should be repaired.
Dimension: Hanshi-bon, 23 x 16 cm
Date: c.1836/40

TOYOKUNI III / KUNISADA
(1786 - 1865)

Women carrying a dragon at a procession
Frauen einen Drachen auf einem Umzug tragend

Signature / Signatur (right sheet / rechtes Blatt): oju Kochoro Toyokuni ga, with Toshidama seal / mit Toshidama Siegel
Publisher / Verleger: Iba-ya Senzaburo
Date / Datum: c.1850's
Censor's seal / Zensorsiegel: Watanabe
Dimension: oban tate-e triptych each sheet approx 37 x 25 cm

You can see a Japanese woodblock printer doing his work.

Utagawa Yoshitora
(active c.1840-80)

In 1702, Lord Asano of Ako was provoked by Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka into drawing his sword in the shogun's palace, for which he was forced to take his own life, and his estate was confiscated. Forty-seven of Lord Asano's retainers, who were now ronin - samurai without masters, planned and carried out a successful attack on Kira's palace. Kira's head was cut off with the same dagger Lord Asano used to commit seppuku. The 46 surviving ronin then took their own lives. These events were made into the famous play, Kanadehon Chushingura.

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Okubi-e
Actor: Nakamura Tamashichi I as Sute Wakamaru
Play: Keisei Chigoga Fuchi
performed: 03/1852
sheet 1 of 2
lit. Ikeda Bunko IV no.441
chuban tate-e


© kotobuki.de

Nakamura Tamashichi I as Sute Wakamura and Arashi Rikaku II as the barber Gengoro in the same play, 03/1852.

Utagawa Yoshitora
(active c.1840-80)

Ujigawa Kassen no Zu
The Battle at Uji River. Sasaki Takatsuna and Kajikawa Kagesue, and their horses and retainers fording the river to attack Kiso Yoshinaka.

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi
Date: c.1840's
Oban tate-e triptych: each sheet 14.5" x 9.75" approx
no longer available

Hirosada

Okubi-e of the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ibijuro IV as Shikama Shobei

chuban tate-e

Munehiro

Okubi-e Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ibijuro IV as Zetsu no Genzaemon

chuban tate-e
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