SHAMISEN
(三味線)

                   
Geisha Girls, Four Musicians

Print Date: 1896 or 1897
Artist: Mortimer Menpes
Medium: Etching and drypoint
 
 
 

[Shamisen and Shakuhachi Players]
 
Print Date: 1900
Artist: Mizuno Toshikata (水野年方)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Publication: Renbo Nagashi (恋慕ながし) by Oguri Fûyô (小栗風葉)
Image courtesy of Aretelino.com
 
 

 

                
[Female Jôruri Player] Onna Jôruri  (女じょうるり)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝), Act IV
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1900-1901
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library
 


 

                
[Singer] Utai Onna (歌い女)

Print Date: 01/01/01
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

 

                
[New Engraving Lantern Stage Attachment No. 1]
Shinkoku-gumi Age Tôrô Butai Tsukumono Dai Icho Gou
(新刻組上ケ燈篭舞台附物 第壱號)

Print Date: 05/12/02
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library
 


 

                   
Geisha (aka The Japanese Dance)

Print Date: 1903
Artist: Charles Hovey Pepper
Personal Collection

 
[Theater Dressing Room] Gekijô Gakuya (劇場楽屋)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1903
Artist: ?
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asia Art
 
Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
           
 
 
 
 

                
               
 
                Play: ?
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 03/26/03
                Artist: ?
 
                Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
i                t is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
                design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
                Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
               
 
           
 
 
 
 

[Playing Music]
 
Print Date: 1904
Artist: Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀)
Series:  [Today's Elegant Manners and Customs] Tôsei Fûryû Tsû (当世風流通)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
A Roundelay

Print Date:  1906
Artist: Helen Hyde
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 
 
 

L:  [When Autumn Has Come] Aki ga Kita tote (秋が来たとて)
R: [What Is A Long Autumn Night]
Aki no Yo wa Nagai mono towa (秋の夜は長いものとは)

Print Date: 10/28/08
Artist: Kaneko Kan? (金子寛)
Published in Niji (虹), Vol. 1, No. 9 (October 28, 1908)
Medium: Lithograph

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       
        [Playing with One's Fingers] Tsumabiki (爪弾き)

        Print Date: 07/28/08
        Artist: Kimura Chômasa? (木村丁雅)
        Published in Niji (虹), Vol. 1, No. 6 (July 28, 1908)
        Medium: Lithograph

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       
        [Rehearsal] Osarae (おさらへ)

        Print Date: 07/28/08
        Artist: Nagano Seiji (中野晴司)
        Published in Niji (虹), Vol. 1, No. 6 (July 28, 1908)
        Medium: Lithograph
 
 
 
 

 
[Theater Dressing Room]
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/1908
Aritst; ?
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.   The date
of this print has not been independently verified.   Similar prints
were issued in 1903.  A similar design from 1902 was attributed
by Kunitachi College of Music Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
 
 
 

                   
[String Check] Ito Shirabe (糸しらべ)

Print Date: 07/03/08
Artist: Wada Sanzô (和田三造)
Published in Hôsun (方寸), Vol. 2, No. 5 (July 3, 1908)
Medium: Zinc plate print

                 
[Postcard] Ehagaki (絵はがき)
 
Print Date: 05/20/09
Artist: Friedrich Rumpf
Published in Hôsun (方寸), Vol. 3, No. 4 (May 20, 1909)
Medium: Lithograph
 
 
 
 

Yanagibashi (柳ばし)

Print Date: c. 1910
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Series: [Twelve Views of Tokyo] Tôkyô Jûni Kei (東京十二景)
*Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

                                                       
                            Song for Shamisen Lesson

                            Print Date: 1910
                            Artist: Odake Kokkan (尾竹国観)
                            Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
                            Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 

                   
[A Joker and His Musician]

Print Date: 1911
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
 
 
 

                   
[The Street Musicians]

Print Date: 1911
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
Note: Later variant
 
 
 

                   
Geishas of Kioto

Print Date: 1914
Artist: Mortimer Menpes
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Shitaya (下谷)

Print Date: c. 1914-1917
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Series: [Twelve Views of Tokyo] Tôkyô Jûni Kei (東京十二景)
*Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

                 
[Shamisen Leaves] Shamisengusa (三味線草)

Print Date:  1915
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock print from the book
Shamisengusa (三味線草)
Image courtesy of the British Museum

                 
[Illustrated Kabuki Script Kouta Collection]
Eiri Koutashu Shamisen Grass (絵入小唄集)

Print Date:  1915
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock print from the book
Shamisengusa (三味線草)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 

                 
[Orchid Lantern] Rantô (蘭燈)

Print Date:  06/09/17
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 Gakufu (セノオ楽譜) No. 44
 
 
 
 

                 
[Shamisen Player] Shamisen Sôsha (三味線奏者)

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
 
 
 

                 
[Shamisen Player] Shamisen Sôsha (三味線奏者)

Print Date:  1919
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed book print from
Roji no Hosomichi (露地の細道)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

A Blind Street Musician

Print Date: 1920
Artist: Cyrus Baldridge
Medium: Monotype

                   
[Demon Playing the Shamisen]
Oni no Shamisen (鬼の三味線)
 
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Kusunose Nichinen (一楠瀬日年)
Series; Ôtsu-e Zuchô (大津絵図帖)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 

 
 
 

                   
[Female Fox Playing the Shamisen]
Shamisen wo Hiku Kitsune Onna (三味線を弾く狐女)
 
Print Date: 1920Kusunose Nichinen (一楠瀬日年)
Series; Ôtsu-e Zuchô (大津絵図帖)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 

 
 
 

                 
[Treasure Ship] Takarabune  (宝船)

Print Date:  1920
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of the Yumeji Art Museum

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 
 
 

                 
[Treasure Ship] Takarabune  (宝船)

Original Print Date:  1920
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

                   
[Traveling Entertainers] Tabi Geinen ( 旅芸人)

Print Date: 1921
Artist: Furuya Taiken (古屋泰軒)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art


 
 
 

[Ike-no-hata at Night] Yoru no Ikenohata (夜の池之端)

Print Date: 1921
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Jyuraku no Yume (聚樂の夢);  Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内藏助); Tsuyu (露);
Kamogawa Zutsumi no Satsujin (加茂川堤の殺人)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/06/22
Print Date: 05/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Jyuraku no Yume (聚樂の夢);  Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内藏助); Tsuyu (露);
Kamogawa Zutsumi no Satsujin (加茂川堤の殺人)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/06/22
Print Date: 05/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
[Blind Female Musician] Goze (瞽女)

Print Date: 1922
Artist: Furuya Taiken (古屋泰軒)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art


 
 

                   
[Night Music on a Floating Pavillion
(left panel)]
Suitei Yakyoku (水亭夜曲)

Print Date: 09/1929 (ed. 8)
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo


Note: Although this is how the
triptych is shown in the 2000 Oda
catalog, one wonders if the left and
right panels should be reversed.

                   
[Night Music on a Floating Pavillion
right panel)]
Suitei Yakyoku (水亭夜曲)

Print Date: 09/1929 (ed. 8)
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
 


 
 
 
 

                   
Cover

Print Date: 09/1928
Artist: Higuchi Tomimaro (樋口富麻呂)
Publication: Senryu Dai Osaka (川柳大大阪),
Vol. 5 (Sept. 1928)
Personal Collection
 

                   
[Illustrated Nagebushi] Ei Nagebushi (絵入なげぶし)

Publication: 邪珠蠻土 [Yokoshimatama Bantsuchi?], 第 1 号
Date: August 5, 1929
Artist: Fukazawa Sakuichi (深沢索一; 深澤索一)
 
 
 
 

Tayû (大夫)

Publication: 版画 [Hanga], 第 1 号
Date: February 1, 1929
Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Unknown Title

Publication: [Ex Libris]
Ekisu Riburisu (エキス ・ リブリス) 46 号
Date: 06/10/31
Artist:; ?


 
  

                 
Tôjin Okichi (唐人お吉)

Print Date: 1932
Artist: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清)
Personal Collection (#43/100)
 

                   
The Concert

Print Date: 1932
Artist: Dorsey Potter Tyson
Medium: Etching with color applied by hand on the plate
before drawing the print
 
 

[Shamisen Playing] Shamisen Hiki (三味線ひき)

Publication:  Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 39[40] 号
Date: 07/01/34
Artist: Ita Yusei (板祐生)
 
Note: Although the image is in black and white, the print is in color.
 
 
 
 

               
                Lodging In The Gion Gay Quarter


                Print Date: 1935
                Artist: Nakazaka Hiromitsu (中澤弘光)
                *Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 

Peking Minstrel

Print Date: 1938
Artist: Cyrus Baldridge
Medium: Etching

Singers In The Dark, Peking

Print Date: 1939
Artist: Cyrus Baldridge
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of the University of Wyoming Art Museum
 
 

                 
[Soemon District]  Sôemon-chô (宗右衛門町)

Date:  1947
Artist: Akamatsu Rinsaku (赤松麟作)
Series: [Thirty-six Views of Osaka] Osaka Sanjûrokkei (大阪 三十六景) #5
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Later printings exist.
 
 

Peking Minstrels in Moonlight

Print Date: 1948
Artist: Cyrus Baldridge
Medium: Drypoint etching

[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: 1952
Artist: Yurimoto Keiko (由里本景子)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

[Singer with Shamisen Player] 

Print Date: 1953
Artist: Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆)
Series: [The West and the East No. 12: Booklet of the Vacation Trip]
Sochu Sohon. No. 12: Higashi Nishi; Yûko-Jyô (東西(遊行帖)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Toys No. 3
 
Print Date: 1957
Artist: Hatsuyama Shigure (初山滋)
Image courtesy of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 
 
 

                 
Gion, Kyôto (祇園, 京都)

Print Date: 1964 (ed. 100)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi (斎藤清)
Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
 
 
 

                   
[Female Jôruri Player] Onna Jôruri  (女じょうるり)

Print Date: 1973
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

                   
]Female Jôruri Player] Kakumaru no Naka no Onna Jôruri
(角丸の中の女じょうるり)

Print Date: 1973
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

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

Print Date: 1974
Artist: Kobayashi Matsuo (1974)
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's Card
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

                   
[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: 1978
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
[Woman Playing a Stringed Instrument]

Play: ?
Print Date: 1978
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 
 
 

                   
[Animal Performance]
 
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction
 
 

                   
[Shamisen Lessons (Black)]

Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 

                   
[Shamisen Lessons (White)]

Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

                   
[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: 1984
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 90)
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
[Courtesan with Shamisen]

Play: ?
Print Date: 1989
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery 
 
 

                   
[Strumming] Tsume-biki (爪びき)

Print Date: 1991 (ed. 250
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Image courtesy of Mike Peters
 
Note: This print was issued posthumously based on a March 1932 painting.
 
 
 
 

Ease
 
Print Date: 2009 (ed. 36)
Artist: Tuula Moilanen
Series: [Six Dreams of Beauties in This Transient World]
Ukiyo Bijin Yume Rokusen (浮世美人 ゆめ六撰)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

[Blind Female Shamisen Players] Goze ( 瞽女)
Hommage to Shinichi Saito 1922-1994
 
Print Date: 2011
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint
Personal Collection
 
 
 

[Blind Female Strolling Musicians (Winter)] Goze (Fuyu) (瞽女[冬])
Ex Libris Hideto Tsuji
 
Print Date: 04/2014
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint with gold leaf
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
[Musicians at Suruga District]
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kikuchi Kiichirô (菊 池貴一郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Kikuchi Kiichirô (菊 池貴一郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

[Repairing Shamisen]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Kondô Kôichirô (近藤浩一路)
Series: Senryû Manga (川柳漫画)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
   

                
[Ghost Shamisen Players During Daytime]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Kondô Kôichirô (近藤浩一路)
Series: Senryû Manga (川柳漫画)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
   

                   
[Three women, two looking at pictures of musicians]

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

Note: This is a black and white image of a color etching.

                   
Japanese Women

Print Date: ? (c. 1920)
Artist: Ferdinand Michl
Medium: Monotype
Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Prague

                   
Koto-und Shamisenspielerin (Koto and Shamisen Players)

Print Date: ? (c. 1920s)
Artist: Ferdinand Michl
Medium: Colored etching

[Samurai and Geisha with Shamisen]
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mizuno Toshikata (水野年方)
Image courtesy of Aretelino.com
 
 

 

                        [Shamisen Player]
 

                        Print Date: ?
                        Artist: Odake Kokkan (尾竹国観)
                        Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
                        Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

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[Shamisen Cat]

Print Date: ? (ed. 15)
Artist: Ono (Ohno) Takashi
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Ôta Saburô (太田三郎)
Medium: Newspaper or book woodblock print
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
[Evening at Shinagawa]

Print Date: pre-1923
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
 
 

                   
[Evening at Shinagawa]

Print Date: pre-1923
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
Note: Cut-down variant.
 
 
 
 

                   
[Evening at Shinagawa]

Print Date: pre-1936
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
Note: Later variant
 
 
 

                   
[Wandering Musicians] Nigashi (流し)

Print Date: pre-1940
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 

 
 
 

                   
[Teahouse in the Night]

Print Date: pre-1936
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
 
 
 

                   
[Revelers in Moonlight]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
Note: Marc Kahn of the Shotei.com website believes
that this is a plagiarized print.
 
 
 
 

                   
[Singers of Popular Songs]

Print Date: pre-1936
Artist: Takahashi Hiroaki (高橋弘明; 高橋広明)
*Image courtesy of Shotei.com
 
Note: A knock-off print, signed Hiroshige, was issued by Shima
Art Company.
 

 
 
 

                 
[Shamisen]

Print Date:  ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed poster
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

                 
?

Print Date:  ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Pochibukuro or wrapping paper 
(unclear if woodblock printed)
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

                 
?

Print Date:  ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Takeuchi Keishû (武内桂舟)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: This was a frontispiece for the novel "Torioi"
(鳥追) published in Bungei Kurabu  (文芸倶楽部)
magazine, Vol.14, No.1.
 
 
 
 

[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Takeuchi Keishû (武内桂舟)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Color variant; see other note for additional details.

[Shamisen Player]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Takeuchi Keishû (武内桂舟)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Color variant; see other note for additional details.

                                 
                [Two Musicians]

                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.
                The print has been attributed to Eisen by the dealer but I
                have not been able to confirm this.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Street Musicians]
 
Play:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: This senshafuda was acquired
along with the senshafuda in
Senshafuda Set #4 but is believed to
be part of a different set.
 

Play and Sing (ひかせてうたってゐる)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Kozaki Kan (小崎侃)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten