[King Ran-ryo] Ranryo-oh
 
Engi-Raku
 
[Butterfly] Kocho (蝶)

Title: Gagaku  (雅楽)
Original Print Date: 1905
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: This work was printed by the contemporary printer Saji Keizô from the original wood blocks
for the e-hon book, "Gagaku Zu" published in 1905.
 
 

                   
                    Soriko (鯏利古
 
                    Daijo-e (大嘗會)
 
                    Kagura-uta (神楽歌)

                    Title: Gagaku  (雅楽)
                    Original Print Date: 1905
                    Artist: ?
                    Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
                    Note: This work was printed by the contemporary printer Saji Keizô from the original wood blocks
                    for the e-hon book, "Gagaku Zu" published in 1905.
 
 
 

Court Dancer Hagiwara Taneko (萩原種子)

Dance: Gosechi no Maihime (五節之舞姫)
Performance Place: Kyoto
Performance Date: 1915/11/1915
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Ogawa Hyoe (小川兵衛)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

Court Dancer Seikanji Utako (清閑寺歌子)

Dance: Gosechi no Maihime (五節之舞姫)
Performance Place: Kyoto
Performance Date: 11/1915
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Ogawa Hyoe (小川兵衛)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection 
 
 

Bugaku (舞楽): Taiheiraku( 太平楽); Gosechi no Mai
(五節舞); Kume no Mai (久米舞)
       
Print Date: 1915
Artist: Anonymous female students t the Nara
Women's Higher Normal School, revised by Mizuki
Yôtarô (水木要太郎)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        Kume no Mai (久米舞)

        Performance Date: 11/16/15
        Print Date: 1915       
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        Manzairaku (万歳楽)

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Bugaku (舞楽) Dancers

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

The Gosechi Dance (五節舞) and the Throne

Print Date: 1915
Artist: ?
Medium: Collotype printed postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        Taiheiraku (太平楽), no. 4

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Gosechi Dance (五節舞), no. 2

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Manzairaku (#3)

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Kume-mai (#1)

Print Date: 1915
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
        
    
 

       
        [The Gosechi Dance] Gosechi no Mai (五節舞)

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: Yûki Somei (結城素明)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Series: [Commemoration of the Enthronement]
        Tairei Kinen (****)
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        [Gosechi Dance] Gosechi no Mai (五節舞)

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: Terada Akitoyo (寺田秋豊)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Series: [Commemoration of the Enthronement]
        Tairei Kinen (****)
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

       
        Bugaku (舞楽) Dances

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

Taiheiraku (太平楽)

Print Date: 1915
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Series: [Commemoration of the Enthronement]
Tairei Kinen (****)
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        Dancers and Rabbits

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

       
        Watching the Manzai Performance at Nijo Castle
       
        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

       
        View of the Dancing in the Shoki-den Palace, No. 5

        Print Date: 1915
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Genjoraku (還城楽)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1917
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts  
 
 
 
  

Complete View of the Meiji Shrine
and Imperial Rest House at the
Meiji Shrine

Play: ?
Print Date: 1920
Artist: ?
Medium: Collotype printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
  

Bugaku (舞楽)

Performance Place: Kasuga Shrine
Performance Date: 1922?
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Nakazawa Hiromitsu (中澤弘光)
Series: Nihon Taikan #18
Personal Collection

Dances Performed at the Evening Entertainment in
the Palace

Print Date: 1924
Artist: Kasai Hôsai (笠井鳳斎)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Series: The Wedding of the Prince Regent and
Princess Nagako
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Banzai-raku (万歳楽)

Print Date: 1928
Artist: Kasai Hôsai (笠井鳳斎)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston  Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
    
 

       
        Kume no Mai (久米舞)

        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: Kasai Hôsai (笠井鳳斎)
        Medium: Half-tone lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

       
        Gosechi Dance (五節舞)

        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: Kasai Hôsai
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        Manzairaku (万歳楽)

        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Bugaku (舞楽) Dance
 
Print Date: 1928
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        [Doll Representing the Kume Dance]
        Kume no Mai Ningyô no zu (****)

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston  Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

           
Gosechi no Mai (五節舞)

Print Date: 1928
Artist: Shinkyô (真況)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Series: [Postcards of the Enthronement] Gotaiten Ehagaki
(御大典絵葉書), Volume 2
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Banzai-raku (万歳楽)

Print Date: 1928
Artist: Shinkyô (真況)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Series: [Postcards of the Enthronement] Gotaiten Ehagaki
(御大典絵葉書), Volume 2
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        The Dance of Fûzoku (風俗)

        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: Shinkyô (真況)
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Series: [Postcards of the Enthronement] Gotaiten Ehagaki
        (御大典絵葉書), Volume 2
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Taihei-raku (太平楽)

        Print Date: 1928
        Artist: Shinkyô (真況)
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Series: [Postcards of the Enthronement] Gotaiten Ehagaki
        (御大典絵葉書), Volume 2
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial Court Orchestra (aka Gagaku [sic: Bugaku] Orchester]

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancermaster as Sanju
(aka Tokyo Imperial Court Orchestra II)
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

                
Bugaku Orchester
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of Peter Pantzer
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancemaster as Sanju," there are changes
that go beyond changes in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancers in Kumemai I
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

                
Bugaku, Vier Tänzer
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of Peter Pantzer
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancesin Kumemai I," there are changes
that go beyond changes in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial [Court] Dancemasters in Kumemai II
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 
 
 

                
Bugaku, Vier Tänzer [II]
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of Peter Pantzer
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Tokyo, Imperial [Court] Dancemasters in Kumemai I," there are changes
that go beyond changes in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancemasters in Bairoo [sic: Bairo]
(aka Tokyo Kais. Hoftanzer in Bairoo [sic: Bairo])
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 

                
Tokyo Kais, Ballett Sagaku IV

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancemasters in Bairoo [sic: Bairo]," there
are changes that go beyond changes in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 

                
Bugaku, Zwei Tänzer mit Lanze

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of Peter Pantzer
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Tokyo, Imperial Court Dancemasters in Bairoo [sic: Bairo]," there
are changes that go beyond changes in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 

                
Tokyo Imperial Court Dancemaster[s] in front of big gong
(aka Imperial Court Dancers in front of the Dadaiko; Bugaku)

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial (Court) Dancemaster as
Ryo-o, Prince Ling {sic: Prince of Lanling]
 
Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 

                
Japan, Noh Theater

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

                
Tokyo Dancemasters of the Imperial Court Tokyo Noh Play

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
 
Note: Although at first blush this appears to be a color variant of
"Japan, Noh Theater," there are changes that go beyond changes
in color and fabric patterns.
 
 
 

                
Tokyo, Imperial (Court) Dancers in Komaboku [sic: Komaboko]

Print Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Stencil Print
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

[Bugaku Dance in Ise Shrine] Jingû Bugaku (神宮舞楽)

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

               
                [Bugaku mask] Bugaku-man (舞楽面)

                Dance: Konju (胡飲酒)
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
                Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

[Prince of Lan Ling] Ranryôô (蘭陵王)

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