Bunraku (文楽)

BUNRAKU
(文楽)

UNKNOWN DATES

[Puppet Master]
Ayatsuri Ningyō-shi (操り人形師)

Print Date: ?
kihei Artist: Domotô Inshô (堂本印象)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Bunraku Puppet ] Bunraku Ningyô (文楽人形): Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)

Play: Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
Print Date: 1952
Artist; Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一)
*Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

[Adolescence]

Print Date: ? (ed. 200)
Artist: Katô Yuichirô (加藤裕一郎?}
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Manji Book Collection] Manji Bunko (萬字文庫)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Medium: Woodblock printed ex libris?

        [Osaka Poem - Legend (Bunraku)]
        Osaka no Shi - Denshou, Bunraku (大阪の詩 - 伝承 (文楽))

        Print Date: ? (ed. 220)
        Artist: Kimura Kôsuke (木村光佑)
        Medium: Silkscreen
        Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Bunraku Puppet]

Date: ?
Artist: Maeda Tôshirô (前田藤四郎)
Personal Collection

Bunraku (楽)

Print Date: ? [pre-1984]
Artist: Miyata Masayuki (宮田雅之)
Medium: Paper cut print
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The image above is an offset lithograph based on the original
paper cut print..

Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nakagawa Isaku (中川伊作)
Series: [Prints of Bunraku Puppets] Bunraku Ningyo Hanga no Uchi
Personal Collection

Bunraku (文楽)

Print Date: c. 1960s
Artist:: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Bunraku (文楽)

Print Date: c. 1960s
Artist:: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Japanese Art Open Database

Bunraku (文楽)

Print Date: likely 1957-1959
Artist:: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Japanese Art Open Database

[Bunraku Samurai (文楽侍)]

Print Date: ?
Artist:: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints

[Bunraku Puppet Performance]

Play: ?
Print Date: Unknown
Artist: Saito Seijirô (斎藤清二郎)
Personal Collection

Note: This print is identical to an undated
postcard by Saito Seijirô.

Bunraku Puppet

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Ôi River: The Puppet Master, Yoshida Bungorô
(吉田文五郎), with a Bunraku Puppet Miyuki
(深雪) [aka Asagao (朝顔)] Ôigawa (大井川)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: Various authorities date this print to 1955, 1956, and 1957.

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[My Daughter with Bunraku dolls)]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: The Honolulu Museum of Art dates this print to c.1953.

[Bunraku Puppet] Osome (お染)

Play:A Osome-Hisamatsumono play such as
Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of Mutualart.com

Note: It is possible that this print corresponds to Bunraku
Puppet No. 1 (1934) or Bunraku Puppet No. 2 (1935).

[Bunraku Puppet] Osome (お染)

Play: A Osome-Hisamatsumono play such as
Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of the British Museum

Note: The British Museum dates this print to the 1950s.
It is possible that this print corresponds to Bunraku
Puppet No. 1 (1934) or Bunraku Puppet No. 2 (1935).

[Bunraku Puppet] Osome (お染)

Play: A Osome-Hisamatsumono play such as
Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Personal Collection (#67/150)

Note: The British Museum dates a color variant of this print to the
1950s. It is possible that this print corresponds to Bunraku
Puppet No. 1 (1934) or Bunraku Puppet No. 2 (1935).

[Puppeteer with Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)]

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)

[Oiran (***)]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)

Oiran Yûgiri (おいらん夕霧)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Personal Collection

Mitoki (巳時) II

Play: ?
Print Date: c. 1980s
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

Tayû (太夫) B

Play: ?
Print Date: c. 1980s
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 40)
Image courtesy of Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

Osono (お園)

Genre: Bungakuza Ningyôjôruri (文楽座人形浄瑠璃)
Play: Sankatsu Hanshichi Sakaya no Dan (三勝半七酒屋の段)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Personal Collection (#118/200)

Koharu (小春)

Play: Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                [Bunraku Puppet] Bunraku Ningyô (文楽人形)

                Play: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
                Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

                    [Awa Jûruri Puppet] Awa Jûruri Deku
                    (阿技浄瑠璃木偶)
                    [Heisaku of Numazu] Heisaku no Numazu
                    (沼津の平作)

                    Play: Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
                    Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六)
                    Performance Place: ?
                    Performance Date: ?
                    Print Date: ?
                    Artist: Hayashi Korô (林鼓浪)
                    Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
                    Series: Meibutsu Hanga; Awa Odori to Deko
                    (名物版画; 阿波おどりとでこ)
                    Personal Collection

[Awa Puppet] Awa Deku (阿技でく)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ? (pre-1964)
Artist: Hayashi Korô (林鼓浪)
Courtesy of www.miniaturejapanesewoodblocks.net

[Bunraku Puppet Kijin] Bunraku Ningyô Kijin (文楽人形鬼神)

Print Date: ? (ed. 30)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Intaglio print
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Bunraku (文楽)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Bunraku-Kamuro; Keigoto (文楽 [禿])

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Intaglio print
Image courtesy of the Japanese Art Open Database

Bunraku-Ochiyo (文楽 [お千代])

Play: Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申)
Print Date: ? (ed. 30)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Intaglio print
Image courtesy of the Japanese Art Open Database

Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's card
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Hatsugiku-A (初菊)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Etching (ed. 30)

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki ((壇浦兜軍記)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Etching (ed. 30)

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Chûjôhime (中將姫)

Play: Hibariyama Himesute Matsu (鶊山姫捨松)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Misao (操)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Kaoyo Gozen (顏世御前)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Kai (Kuzu no Ha) (界(葛の葉))

Play: Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑; 蘆屋道満大内鑑)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Rangiku-no-Midare (蘭菊の乱れ)

Play: Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑; 蘆屋道満大内鑑)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Sou (妝)

Play: ?
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Onatsu (お夏)

Title: Gojû Nenki Uta Nenbutsu (五十年忌歌念佛)
Play: ?
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Goriyo

Title: Bunrakuza-Zanshi (御霊文楽座残思)
Play: ?
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

Okoma Yûshû (お駒憂愁)

Play: Koi Musume Mukashi Hachijô (戀娘昔八丈)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?

Note: In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."