Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: 1852
Description: Diptych of Jiraiya and a
courtesan, playing go.
Comment: If you look closely, you will
notice that the board and bowls are being supported by a crouching
servant. Ouch!
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: circa 1864
Series: "Story of faithful Hearts and
True Loyalty."
Title or subject: "Ooishe Saemon Nobukiyo."
Description: This is one of the ones
showing an actor squinting and holding an upside-down go board on his
shoulder.
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: 1852
Description: Depicts a bijin
("beautiful woman) standing over a go board looking over her
shoulder.
Comment: Chuban size.
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: circa 1846-1847
Description: Sensual night scene with
three biijin over a go board, with the moon, river, and mountain in the
background.
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: 1857
Description: One of several go prints
depicting a bijin reading a letter seated at, or standing over, a go
board.
Series: "Genji gojuyo-jo" (The 54
Amourous Chapters of Genji), subtitled "Chapter 4."
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Published: around 1850
Description: These are the center and
right sheets of a triptych, showing actors on stage with a go board.
Comment: Fortunately, the two sheets
work well together, which isn't always the case when one of the three
sheets is missing.
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Description: It shows the courtesan
Takuhijo talking to a maid. There's a bijiin playing go in the back
room, with part of the board showing.
Series: "36 Courtesans #1"
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kunisada
1786 - 1864
Series: "36 Courtesans #1"
Comment: Prints depicting life in the
Yoshiwara often extolled both the womanly virtues and good character of
the courtesans, as well as their professional capabilities. Woodblock
prints were used as advertisements, play bills, political statements (in
which case neither the artist nor publisher dared sign them), decoration
(for the common class only)and the equivalent of comic books. Highly
valued today, they only cost a few cents in the 18th & 19th centuries,
and were even used as packing material in crates of merchandise.
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kuniyoshi
1797-1861
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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Kuniyoshi
1797-1861
Description: woodprint (ukiyo-e)
Copyright: Douglas Cable
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