LION DANCES
(獅子舞)

               
Handoku (はんどく) - [Lion Dancer] Shishimai (越後獅子)
 
Play: Echigo Jishi (越後獅子) ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: A woodblock print version of this design exists.  It is possible
that the medium of the Engei Gahô version is misidentified in the
table of contents, but the woodblock version is printed differently.
 
 

               
Handoku (はんどく) - [Lion Dancer] Shishimai (越後獅子)
 
Play: Echigo Jishi (越後獅子) ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock print
Date: circa 04/01/12?
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
[Street Performer Lion Dancer]

Print Date:  1919
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed book print from
Yume no Furusato (夢のふる郷)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

                   
[Lion Dance of Sado] Sado no Shishimai (佐度の獅子舞)

Publication: Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 48 [49] 号
Date: 04/01/36
Artist: Kobayashi Asaji (小林朝治)
 
Note: A color image is not available at this time.

 

                   
[Festival Lion] Matsuri Shishi (まつり獅子)

Print Date: 1959
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
 
 

                   
[Lion Dance] Shishimai (獅子舞)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1960
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently
available.  It is not known at this time if a color
version exists. 
 
  

                   
[Lion and Clown] Shishi to Dôke (獅子と道化)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1965
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available. 
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.
 
 
 

                   
[Lion Dance] Shishimai (獅子舞)

Play: ? (***)
Print Date: 1965
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 30)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available. 
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.

                   
[A Clown & Lion] Dôke to Shishi (道化と獅子)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1966
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available.
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.
 
 
 

                   
[Sacred Dance by Lion] Shishi Kagura (獅子神楽)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1968
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 30)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available.  It is
not known at this time if a color version exists.

 
 

                   
[Lion Dance] Shishimai (獅子舞)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1968
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

            
The Dance for Harvest

Print Date: 1971
Artist: Tajima Hiroyuki (田嶋宏行)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

            
[Lion Dance in Saga] "Shishimai" Saga ("獅子舞" 佐賀)

Print Date: 1977 (ed. 200)
Artist: Tanaka Masaaki (田中正秋)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

            
[Lion Dance, Tokyo] [Shishimai, Tôkyô (獅子舞, 東京)]

Print Date: 1978 (ed. 75)
Artist: Tanaka Masaaki (田中正秋)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
[Lion] Shishi (獅子)
 
Play: Shakkyo (石橋)
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

                   
[Lion Dance] Shishimai (獅子舞)

Print Date: 1979
Artist: Clifton Karhu
 
 
 
 

The Happy Lion

Print Date: 2007 (ed. 85)
Artist: Aida Emiko (会田恵美子)
Medium: Etching with Aquatint
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
[Lion dancer with masks]

Play:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
Shishimai (獅子舞)

Play:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a
print with this title that it dates to 1981, though it is
not known if the design is the same.

[Root] Rûto (ルート)
 
Print Date: ? (ed. 50)
Artist: Homma Rie (本間利依)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The boy is performing a shishimai (獅子舞), a Japanese lion dance.

                 
[Lion Dance] Shishimai (獅子舞)
 
Date: ?
Artist: Itô Nisaburô (伊藤仁三郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 
 

[Lion Dance]
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kamisaka Sekka (神坂雪佳) (Unknown Date)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Lion Dance] [Shishimai (獅子舞)]

Date: ?
Artist: Kawada Kan (川田幹)
Medium: Stencil print
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Edo Period New Year's] Edo-ki Gansan (江戸期元三)

Print Date:  ?
Artist: Takeshita Kin-u (竹下金烏)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

 
 

                                     
                    [Ueda Lion Dance} Ueda no Shishi Odori (上田の獅子踊り)

                    Print Date: ? (ed. 50)
                    Artist: Tomita Show (富田尚志)
                    Image courtesy of Artelino.com

 
 
 

[Lion Dance]

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

                   
Rakutenchi (楽天地)

Print Date: ? (ed. 100)
Artist: Ikezumi Kiyoshi (生悦住喜由)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten