BIWAS (琵琶) AND LUTES (胡弓)

                   
[Goddess Benten and Snake]

Print Date: 1905
Artist: Kajita Hanko (梶田半古)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

                   
[Playing a Lute]

Print Date: 1907
Artist: Asai Chû (浅井忠)
Published in [Fifty Poems on Contemporary Customs]
Tôsei Fûzoku Gojûban Uta Awase
(当世風俗五十番歌合下), Vol. 1
Medium: Woodblock printed book print
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 
 

                
[Chinese Lute Player]

Print Date: 1911
Artist: Terazaki Kôgyô (寺崎廣業)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 


 

[Youth on the Street] Wakakihino Rojyô Yûgento yori 
(若き日の路上ユーゲントより)

Print Date: 12/10/13
Artist: O. Wirsin
Published in Rojyô (路上)
Medium: Unknown
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ezo no Yoshitsune (蝦夷の義經); Biwa no Nadokoro Yuki no Kagekiyo (琵琶名所月景清);
Gengobê Oman Imayô Satsuma Uta (源五兵衛おまん今様薩摩歌); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
The Musicians

Print Date: 1930
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied by woodblock

                   
An Old Song

Print Date: 1930
Artist: Dorsey Potter Tyson
Medium: Etching with color applied by hand on the plate
before drawing the print
 

                   
A Song of Old Cathay

Print Date: c. 1931-1933
Artist; Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier
Medium: colored aquatint       

                   
A Song of Old Cathay

Print Date: post-1970
Artist; Geoffrey Sneyd Garnier
Medium: restrike etching

 
 

Untitled

Publication: Kaketa-Tsubo (かけた壼)
Print Date: 04/10/34
Artist: Maruyama Yôichi (丸山要一)
 
 
 

                   
[Biwa Player] Biwa-shi (琵琶師)

Print Date: 1941
Artist: Wada Sanzô (和田三造)
Series: [Compendium of Occupations in the Shôwa Era]
Shôwa Shokugyô E-Zukushi (昭和職業繪盡) (Series 2)
Personal Collection
 
Note:  This first edition print was published by Nishinomiya Shoin in an edition of 300.  A post-war
edition made from recarved blocks was issued by Kyoto Hangain.
 
 
 

                 


Print Date:  1950, published in [Book of Ghosts] Yûrei no sho (幽霊の書)
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
 
 
 
 

                   
[Consumate Skill of Tsunemasa]
Tsunemasa no Shingi (経正の神技)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 

                   
[Playing (B)] Dansô (弾奏)

Print Date: 1975
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 

Dancing Girl of Mogao Cave
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 100)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                 
Ancient Musical Charm No. 2

Print Date: 2002 (ed. 10)
Artist: Zhû Jiânhuî (朱建辉)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

[Music Performance] Gassô (合奏)
Ex Libris 婉仪珍 [Wân Yízhên]
 
Print Date: 02/2021
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Series: The Tale of Genji
Medium: Mezzotint with gold power
Courtesy of http://www.k-hama24.com
 
 
 

[Musicians]
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Inagaki Toshijirô (稲垣稔次郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                                   
                Biwa Player

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

                   
The Song of the Pineapple

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

                   
[A Musical Quartet]

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

                   
Concert

Print Date: ? (pre-1929)
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied by woodblock

[Girl playing a lute]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Nakahara Jun'ichi (中原淳一)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

[Blue Chinese Vase with Lute Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Serizawa Keisuke (芹沢銈介)
Medium: Stencil Print
Series: Tsubo (壷)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                                     
                    [Beauty and Blind Biwa Player]

                    Print Date: ?
                    Artist: Tomioka Eisen (富岡永洗)
                    Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                    Note: It is possible that this print was made prior to 1900.
 
 
 
  

                 
[Girl in the Evening]

Print Date:  ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com