GUITARS (ギター), MANDOLINS (マンドリン), AND UKELELES

                 
 
Plays: Haru no Mura (春の村); Satsuma Kôbai (薩摩紅梅); Saiai Tsuma (最愛の妻)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/20
Print Date: 01/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Tachitsure Uta Hana (たちつれ歌はな)

Print Date:  05/17/20
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Machine printed? sheet music cover
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

Note: Senô Shin Kouta (セノオ新小唄) No. 19
 
 
 
 

                 
Costume Ball (aka "Confetti")

Print Date:  1924
Artist: Bertha Lum
*Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

                 
[Autumn Melody] Aki no Shirabe ( 秋のしらべ)

Print Date:  11/1924
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Gallery Shukado

Note: Magazine print for The Ladies Graphic,
Fujin Gurafu (婦人グラフ)

                 
[Nanban Song] Nanban Kyoku (南蛮曲)

Print Date: 02/20/1925
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in HANGA, No. 5
Image courtesy of http://wuhanam.com

                 
[Still Life] Seibutsu (静物)

Print Date: 05/15/25
Artist: Ono Eiichi (小野英一)
Published in Hanga (版画), No. 2
 
 
 
 

                 
[Modernist] Modanisuto (モダニスト)

Print Date: 1927
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
 
Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.

                 
[Modernist] Modanisuto (モダニスト)

Print Date: 1927
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 

                 
[On The Way; aka Stylish Girls 
on a Promenade] Tojô (途上)

Print Date: 1928
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
 
 

                 
[Swallow House] Tsubame no Oie (燕のお家)

Print Date:  1928
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Kyôbunsha (京文社)
 
 
 
 　

                 
[Catalina's Song] Katarina no Uta (カタリナの唄)

Print Date: 1929
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
 
Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.
 
 

                 
[New Year's Card] Nengajô (年賀状)
 
Print Date: 1931 (likely December)
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's Card for 1932 
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

               
Cover

Opera: [Faust] Fausuto (フアウスト)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/34
Print Date: 04/01/34
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in Han Geijutsu (版芸術), Vol. 25 (April 1, 1934)
Personal Collection

Note: Because a guitar appears in this print and plays a
prominent role in the opera Faust, it is believed that this print
depicts props from the opera performed by the San Carlo Grand
Opera Company.
 
 
 
 

                 
Title Page (扉0

Opera: [Faust] Fausuto (フアウスト)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/34
Print Date: 04/01/34
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in Han Geijutsu (版芸術), Vol. 25 (April 1, 1934)
Personal Collection

Note: The opera was performed by the San Carlo Grand
Opera Company.

                 
Act II (第2幕)

Opera: [Faust] Fausuto (フアウスト)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/34
Print Date: 04/01/34
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in Han Geijutsu (版芸術), Vol. 25 (April 1, 1934)
Personal Collection

Note: The opera was performed by the San Carlo Grand
Opera Company.

                 
[Equestrian Scene] Kyokuba Katto (曲馬カット)

Print Date: 1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
 
Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.

               
[Cover and Endpage for Kyokuba Shaseichô (曲馬写生帖)]

Publication Date: 1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery
 
 
 

               
[Circus Scene Illustration from
Kyokuba Shaseichô (曲馬写生帖)]

Publication Date: 1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery
 
 
 
 
 

[Concerto] Koncheruto (コンチェルト)

Publication: Yûkari (ゆうかり), 第 21 号
Date: 09/10/34
Artist: Nakagawa Yûtarô (中川雄太郎)
 
 

                 
[Spring Song] Haru no Uta (春の唄）

Print Date: 1937
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Medium: Woodblock printed calendar print for April
 
Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.
 
 

                 
[Guitar]  Gitâ (ギター)

Print Date: 1964 (ed. 50)
Artist: Takagi Shirô (高木志朗)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

 
 
 

 [Evening] Yoru (夜)
 
Print Date: 1981 (ed. 90)  2
Art8st: Iwaya Tôru (岩谷徹)
Medium: Mezzotint
Image courtesy of https://www.toruiwaya.com
 

 

                                     
                    [Playing As You Like] Katte na Asobi (かった な遊び)

                    Date: 1981 (ed. 50)
                    Artist: Koike Nobuko (小池暢子)
                    Medium: Etching and Aquatint
                    Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
[Flower of the West] Seihô no Hana (西方の華)
 
Print Date: 2010
Artist: Nunomura Shin'ichi (布村**)
Personal Collection (#10/29)
 
 
 
 

[Power of Four]
 
Print Date: ? (ed. 50)
Artist: Hosoya Masayuki (細谷正之)
Medium: Copperplate Etching
Image courtesy of the Yoseido Gallery

Note:  The four musicians are Vladimir Vysotsky, Georges Moustaki,
Georges Brassens, and John Lennon.
 
 

Zimmermam (ツィンマーマン)
 
Print Date: ? (ed. 100)
Artist: Hosoya Masayuki (細谷正之)
Medium: Linocut
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown CollectionIke Zimmerman

Note: Isaiah "Ike" Zimmerman was an American blues guitarist and
Robert Johnson's main guitar teacher.   But given that the characters spell
"Zimmermam" and not "Zimmerman," it is possible that this depicts
another guitarist altogether.
 
 
 

[Adolescent] Seishun - Dendeke, deke, deke (青春 -でんでんけ, でけ, でけ)

Date: ?
Artist: Nagahata Kazato (永畑風人)
Medium: Chine Collé with Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Silence
 
Print Date: ? (ed. 50)
Artist: Yano Masashi (****)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

              

               
                Cadenses
 
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Yano Masashi (****)
                Image courtesy of Artelino.com