JAVANESE PUPPETS

[Javanese Shadow Puppet] 
Jawa no Kagee Ningyô (ジャワの影絵人形)
 
Publication: Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 8 号
Date: 11/01/32
Artist: Nakata Kazuo (中田一男)
 
 
 
 

[Wayang Puppet (Java)] Wâyan Ningyô (Jaba) (ワーヤン人形 (ジャバ))

Publication: Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 24 号
Date: 03/01/34
Artist: Narumi Kaname (鳴海 要)
 
 
 
 

[Shadow Play] Ajyara Kage (戯影)

Publication: Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 51 [52] 号
Date: 07/01/36
Artist: Ryôji Chômei (料治潮鳴)
     
 
 
 

[Shadow Play] Ajyara Kage (戯影)

Publication: Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 51 [52] 号
Date: 07/01/36  
Artist: Ryôji Chômei (料治潮鳴)
 

                 
[Steady Gaze: Javanese Puppet]
Gyôshi, Jawa Ningyô (凝視、ジャワ人形)

Print Date: c. 1950 (ed. ?)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the John & Mabel
Ringling Museum of Art
 
Note: It is possible that this print is also the one known as
Puppet, Java (A).
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (A)]
Jawa Ningyô (A) (ジャワ人形 (A))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (B)]
Jawa Ningyô (B) (ジャワ人形 (B))

Print Date: 1950 (ed. 30)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (C) aka Puppet Gava (C)]
Jawa Ningyô (C) (ジャワ人形 (C))

Print Date: 1950 (ed. 50)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of Ketterer Kunst
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (D) aka Puppet Gava (D)]
Jawa Ningyô (D) (ジャワ人形 (D))

Print Date: 1950 (ed. 50)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the John & Mabel
Ringling Museum of Art
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (2D) ]
Jawa Ningyô (2D) (ジャワ人形 (2D))

Print Date: 1950 (ed. 50)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
Note: An on-line retailer labeled this print "2D" but it is not known what
that was based on.  It is possible that this image corresponds to one
of the other Puppet, Java prints for which no image is currently
available.
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (E)]
Jawa Ningyô (E) (ジャワ人形 (E))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (F)]
Jawa Ningyô (F) (ジャワ人形 (F))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (G)]
Jawa Ningyô (G) (ジャワ人形 (G))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
Puppet, Java (H)]
Jawa Ningyô (H) (ジャワ人形 (H))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (I)]
Jawa Ningyô (I) (ジャワ人形 (I))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (J)]
Jawa Ningyô (J) (ジャワ人形 (J))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (K)]
Jawa Ningyô (K) (ジャワ人形 (K))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
 
 
 
 

                 
[Puppet, Java (L)]
Jawa Ningyô (L) (ジャワ人形 (L))

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image couresy of the Floating World Gallery 
 
 
 

                 


Print Date: presumably 1950 (ed. ?)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
 
Note: The Art Gallery of Great Victoria does not list a title for this print, which likely corresponds
to one of the other Puppet, Java prints for which no image is currently available.  The catalog
entry states that it  is a "[d]epiction of Wayang puppet from Java."
 
 
 
 

                 


Print Date: 1950 (ed. 50)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
 
Note: The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco gives the title of this print as "Gazing Woman," but
it is more likely Javanese Puppet print, one that may correspond to one of the other Puppet, Java
prints for which no image is currently available. 
 
 

                   
Javanese Puppet

Print Date: ?
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied
by woodblock
Personal Collection

                   
Javanese Puppet

Print Date: ?
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied
by woodblock
Personal Collection

Note: Trial proof printed in sanguine ink

                   
Javanese Puppet

Print Date: ?
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied
by woodblock
Personal Collection

Note: Trial proof printed in black ink