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JAPANESE WOODPRINTS (mostly 19th century) : non-oban prints


Ginko Adachi (1853 - after 1908)
吟光 安達

Series : 大日本史略圖會
Illustrated History of Great Japan
12 和氣清麻呂
Wake no Kiyomaro (733-799)
date : Meiji 18 = 1885
Publisher : Okura Magobei

(Format : chuban, 17.5x23.5cm)


Suzuki Harunobu (1724 - 1770)

Ide Tamagawa 井手の玉川
poem by Fujiwara no Shunzei
signed : Harunobu ga
seal : Hayashi Tadamasa

(Format : chuban)

On the Boston MFA site, the image on the right is attributed to Shiba Kokan (aka Suzuki Harushige, 1747 - 1818), "forgery of Harunobu". The only difference between the two prints, besides slight color variations, is the collector's seal on the bottom right.


Utagawa Hirosada (1810 - 1864)
歌川 広貞

(Format : chuban, 18.5x25.5cm)

Missing prints (from MFA)
Nakamura Utaemon IV
as Katô Masakiyo (加藤正清)
Act 5 of the play
Kiyome no Funauta (清船諷)
played at the Naka theatre
Publisher : 錦鯱堂 Kinkodo

role : 智恵内 Chienai
play :
Kiichi Hōgen Sanryaku no Maki
Torazô ChienaiKiichi Hōgen princess Minazuru
the same scene, by Utagawa Kunimasu (signing Gochōtei Sadamasu); image from Waseda


Hiroshige

Mishima is the top-left part of Station 12, from a series of the 53 stations of the Tokaido, jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi. It turns out that the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has the same print with the upper part cut off.

Mishima

Kichizo Tokaido
42 : Kuwana
1850-51

Format : chuban (23x17cm)


Hokusai : the Tokaido
Format koban (17x12.5cm)

Hokusai produced six series of the 53 stations of the Tokaido, which are described here.
The date of the present one is 1802 according to MFA, and 1806 according to the above reference.
The complete present series can be found on the website of the Digital Collections of Keio University Libraries.

3 : Kanagawa 13 : Hara 21 : Okabe
signed : Hokusai ga Hokusai ga Hokusai ga


Kyosai Kawanabe (1831 - 1889)
Format : 26x18cm

signed : Kyosai
Series : Kyosai Rakuga
(Kyosai's drawings for pleasure)
Date : 1887 or later
Publisher : Unsodo


Kunisada
17.5x15cm

Series title : Two-sided mirror
signed : Kochoro Toyokuni ga
Censors : Murata/Kinugasa
and Shita-uri
Publisher : Tsuji-ya Yasubei

The print shows the actors Sawamura Chojuro V (left) and Onoe Baiko IV (right), playing the roles of Sasaki Gennosuke and Choja Umusume (Umegae?) in the play Ugui suzuka nagara no ferugoto, performed at the Kawarazaki in May 1851. This date matches that of the censors (1851-53). Next to the print are two others from the same artist showing the two same actors in a larger scene.


Yamada Shokei (山田松渓, active 1890-1900)

signed Shokei 松渓
size 23x31cm


Book illustrations from the Tosa school
12.5x18cm

Moronobu?
Part of Hikone screen


Katsukawa Shunsho (1726-1792)

Format : o-hosoban (16.5x39cm)

竹 林 七 妍 図


Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949) 土屋 光逸

Format : yotsugiri (20x14cm)

signed : 光逸 Koitsu
seal : 真 Shin
Sparrows and Snow Covered
Nandin
Date : 1940s
Format : 20x14cm


Unidentified

Format 17x16cm
Format 19x19cm
Red crowned cranes
Bottom seal : 旾谷
Format 30x22cm

Four immortal poets

6 Ōtomo no Yakamochi
中納言家持
Format : 21.5x31cm
20 Motoyoshi Shinno
元良親王
Format : 21.5x31cm

49 Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
大中臣能宣朝臣
Format : 17x25cm
50 Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
藤原義孝
Format : 17x25cm