STREET MUSICIANS [CHINDON'YA (チンドン屋)]/
MINSTRELS (ミンストレル)

                   
[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
 
 
 

[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
 
 
 
 

                 
[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
 
 
 

                 
[Pilgrim with a Tengu Mask]

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 Scholten Japanese Art

A Blind Street Musician

Print Date: 1920
Artist: Cyrus Baldridge
Medium: Monotype

                   
[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 
 
 
 
 

                   
[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

 
 
 

                   
[Itinerant Performers with a child wearing a lion head] Echigojishi (越後獅子)

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


 
 
 

                   
[Street Musician] Gaitô no Ongaku-sha (街頭の音楽者)

Print Date: 1922
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Series: Gashû Tokyo Seikatsu no Uchi ( 画集東京生活の内)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of Hara Shobo
 
 

[Dancing in the Street] Gaitô ni Odoru (街頭に踊る)
 
Artist:  Yoshida Shôzô (吉田正三)
Published in Shin Hanga (新版画), Vol. 11 (December 25, 1933)
Image courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
 
 
 
 

Chindon'ya (aka "Street Musicians")

Print Date: 1937
Artist: Francis Wismer Baker
Medium: linoleum block print
Personal Collection

Note: This print was submitted to the 1937 Northwest Printmakers Exhibition
 
 
  .

                   
[Parade]

Print Date: c. 1937-1940
Artist: Francis Wismer Baker
Medium: woodlblock or lineoleum block print
Image courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum
 
 
 
 

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
 
 

Peking Minstrels in Moonlight

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

[Street Performer] Chindonya (チンドン屋)

Print Date: 1992 (ed. 100)
Artist: Nomura Takaaki (野村たかあき)
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
 
 

                   
Strolling Players

Print Date: ? (pre-1932)
Artist: Elyse Ashe Lord
Medium: Etching with color applied by woodblock

Note: This.may be an alternate title for another design, and is
only known to exist with certainty as a drawing.

                   
[Street Entertainers]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Ogata Gekkô ((尾形月耕)
Series: [One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji]
Fuji Hyakkei (富士百景)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note:  This print was made on or before 1904.
 
 

                   
[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
 

 
 
 

                   
[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.
 

 
 
 

[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.