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[C0D]

Utagawa Yoshitaki (ca 1841 - 1899) Okaru (played by Ichikawa Sadanji) in the Kanadehon Chushingura Act VII: Paper and the Moon, 1870. Three Chuban Sheets.
Unusual L-shaped tryptic

[Guest]

Thank you for posting Manuel,

 

I had not encountered L shaped triptychs before.

 

I can't help but wonder if anything is missing from the top left?

 

Here are some more examples, also by Yoshitaki, I wonder if there was a title sheet for the play, or something that could have been redeemed at the time?

 

https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/images/sc144978.jpg

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc159444

 

Here's an example, again by Yoshitaki, which certainly looks as though two parts are missing.

 

https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/images/sc130989.jpg

 

[C0D]

i found the exact copy here https://www.toshidama-Japanese-prints.com/item_583/Yoshitaki-Kanadehon-Chushingura-Act-VII--Okaru.htm?fbclid=IwAR3bMjjYjkGPQIQ0g8iMQDVwWGwlJe1njPQynXNQfMc-OPWiqTWxrh20ZQ4
I guess it was 

It says "They were originally designed to go in an album, the third upper sheet intended to open upwards."

[Guest]

Again, thank you Manuel, I have learned something.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Marvellous, but imagine having to frame that!  ............... add a fourth black sheet for the night sky?

[C0D]

Marvellous, but imagine having to frame that!  ............... add a fourth black sheet for the night sky?

Actually my idea was to put a 4th sheet with the description of the scene, but i never went through with it 

[Bernard]

Found these two in an old cardboard box. 

 

Any information on the artist(s) and/or the themes of these prints ?

 

Bernard D

[C0D]

Found these two in an old cardboard box. 

 

Any information on the artist(s) and/or the themes of these prints ?

 

Bernard D

first one is this https://ukiyo-e.org/image/japancoll/p750-kuniyoshi-the-ronin--nimura-jirozaemon-kanetsune-581

 

and second one is this https://ukiyo-e.org/image/metro/N049-001

[Bernard]

Thank you, Manuel !

 

Bernard D

[nektoalex]

Greetings!

And the last of the Mohicans 誠忠義士銘々傳 Sei Chu Gishi Meimei Den Kinchoro Yoshitora 芳虎 ,and as said Piers D 

 

 

I cannot find his exact one, either. Maybe it's a discovery!

[Bugyotsuji]

There seem to be very few known paintings by Kanō Ōshin/Oushin.

狩野応信 (original Kanji 應信). I know he wrote a book. But there may have been two Kanō Ōshin...

Would it be fair to say he was no great shakes within the Kanō family?

 

PS Please ignore. It’s a long-term puzzle I have been working on.

Actually, I have a Tanto with a dedication to 「應信」and since both the smith and the artist were in Kyoto at roughly the same time, I was hoping to pin it down. There may have been two succeeding Kano artists using this art name, though. (?) or someone totally unrelated?

[Bugyotsuji]

Follow-up

Many years ago I bought an antique at an outdoor fair, took it home, and discovered that the wrapping paper used was actually two Hiroshige ukiyoe prints stuck to several sheets of old paper backing. I tried to remove as many old sheets as possible, which I used for repairs elsewhere, but could not get the last two or three off. The prints themselves were in terrible condition but carefully I cleansed them as far as possible, following a documentary I had watched from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

 

To get to the point, (apologies Malcolm), one of them was the entrance to the Yoshiwara at night. As I cleaned, figures in the murky background gradually became visible.

Found the two descriptions from these prints just now.

 

The right print was: 'Edo Jiman 36 Kyo Shin Yoshiwara' (Kiyo Toyokuni Hitsu Hiroshige Ga) Oban aratame with date 2/1864, Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzo, Carver: Hori Tashichi. ref N43 NDL

 

The left print was: 'Edo Meisho Zukai, Edo-Bashi' (Hiroshige Ga) Cherries, Mt Fuji + Edo Castle.

[Bugyotsuji]

Today's print, from a lot that I bought, no hints, Malcolm or anyone else!
(No appreciable margins, the colours have gone through to the back.)

[Guest]

Here's a fun print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, themed upon skulls, showing clearly his love of cats:

 

 

 

The character depicted is Nozarashi Gosuke:

 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-07205

 

[PietroParis]

Today's print, from a lot that I bought, no hints, Malcolm or anyone else!

(No appreciable margins, the colours have gone through to the back.)

 

here you go

 

P.S. of course I am cheating...

[Bugyotsuji]

Thank you Pietro, much appreciated.

Here is a handpainted scene, possibly New Year's Day, judging by the Hanetsuki game played with Hagoita, and the Kadomatsu. 肉筆 Nikuhitsu.

Answer time.

Isoda Koryusai, Hobashi Koryusai, 正勝Masakatsu, first called Horyusai, painted Bijin-Ga in style of Hironobu. 18th C, active 1776-1782.

[PNSSHOGUN]

This was bought in a small Tokyo shop in 2005, no idea who the artist is or if it was an old or new print but I have enjoyed it for many years regardless.

 

 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Ichyusai Kuniyoshi, a scene from the Chūshingura!

[Guest]

The original publisher was Ebiya Rinnosuke, and it was originally from 1847, the character depicted was  Yata Goroemon Suketake

 

One of the 47.

 

However, I suggest a later impression, because it lacks both text and the various other marks regarding the censorship of the period.

 

Great Image nonetheless.

 

Here's what it should look like:

 

http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/Stories%20of%20the%20True%20Loyalty%20of%20the%20Faithful%20Samurai,%20Part%20III%20(S54.36-51).htm

 

Top of the list:

 

Inspiring!!

 

 

 

[PNSSHOGUN]

Wow, thank you both for the information, perhaps it's time to add a few others in the series. Yes, I believe it must be a newer print, it was not cheap but certainly nowhere near the prices an original command. It was one of the quaint little stores in a small arcade located underneath one of the older bridges near Tokyo station.

[Bernard]

A surimono by Totoya HOKKEI, from his series “Kaizukushi”, a set of 12 shell prints issued by the Fundarika-ren  (White Lotus club) in 1821.

 

Interestingly, my print doesn’t include the  silver wave in the background, nor the poems written over it, probably because it is a proof print (compare with the “completed” print).

 

Bernard D

[Guest]

Good afternoon Bernard,

 

What you have is a really exciting image, it looks like it may be well before the series was finally collated.

 

It's like having an old master drawing with Pentimenti.

 

You have evidence of the Artist's or  Printer's hand, and the decision making process.

 

Look Top right on yours:

 

The original title that would be within the rectangular cartouche looks like Ju Go Ban No Uchi

 

 

十

五

番

之

内

 

 

 

Whereas the final examples are altered to Ju San Ban No Uchi :

 

十

三

番

之

内

 

 

 

Here's another from the series when the decision had been made "Ju San Ban No Uchi".

 

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/jpd/item/2009615042/

 

 

It has the same excitement for me as the Wood Blocks from an Utagawa Kuniyoshi print that are in the archive of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Extremely well found Bernard.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Exciting stuff, truly, and your enthusiasm is infectious. (I hadn't noticed the number change.)

 

Thinks. Now I will have to go away, lift up some paving stones and and dig something else out. 

[Guest]

Whilst digging around for Bernard's print, I came across this presentation Same print.

 

I include it as an oddity:

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/%E3%80%8C%E6%9D%BE%E9%A2%A8%E5%8F%B0%E4%B8%83%E7%95%AA%E4%B9%8B%E5%86%85%E6%9F%84%E3%80%8D-%E2%80%9CHilt_of_a_Sword%2C%E2%80%9D_from_the_series_of_Seven_Prints_for_the_Sh%C5%8Dfudai_Poetry_Circle_MET_DP135719.jpg

 

[Bernard]

Malcolm, thank you very much. Your expertise in this field is impressive and your enthusiasm contagious, as Piers noticed.

 

This awabi shell surimono, said to be from the Duret collection, comes, as almost all my other Japanese objects, from my father's collection (he died in 1988). Personnally I have no merit at all, except perhaps for not letting them go. However,I had to sell some of his best pieces, like this album lot 225 sold at Christie's in 1992.

 

Bernard D

[Bazza]

Whilst digging around for Bernard's print, I came across this presentation Same print.

 

I include it as an oddity:

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/%E3%80%8C%E6%9D%BE%E9%A2%A8%E5%8F%B0%E4%B8%83%E7%95%AA%E4%B9%8B%E5%86%85%E6%9F%84%E3%80%8D-%E2%80%9CHilt_of_a_Sword%2C%E2%80%9D_from_the_series_of_Seven_Prints_for_the_Sh%C5%8Dfudai_Poetry_Circle_MET_DP135719.jpg

 

 

An oddity Malcolm??  Pray tell why??  Its a presentation same, as I'm sure everyone knows, but of more interest to a sword collector, perhaps, than a ukiyoe-kanteika??  With regard to that, I would dearly love to know what the writing says about the object depicted.

 

Really enjoying this thread, another but related world.

 

BaZZa.

[Bugyotsuji]

A friend here has several of those presentation Same' sets in boxes. 

[Guest]

Good Evening  Bazza & Piers,

 

I described it as an oddity, because, three years ago, I had purchased an actual presentation Same.

 

This to me was asatounding.

 

As my main area of knowledge and endeavour involves Pre - Modern European works on paper, I had, at the time, no other source of illustration.

 

During my research then, I only discovered another one in the volume "Sword & Same".

 

Thus, in my experience, which is truly limited, I in my ignorance, described it as an oddity.

 

I sincerely apologise for my inappropriate terminology and offending you as a result.

 

Mea Maxima Culpa

 

I shall not post further here.

[Tigerinbamboo]

Nooooo

PLEASE keep posting Malcolm. I am another ukiyo-e lover, and I find your posts delightful!

[Bugyotsuji]

When I said he has several, I forgot to add that they are extremely rare (I think) and they seemed to be worth serious money.

 

And Malcolm, please stay here. I shall assume that was the Covid talking.