Gallery 9G: Postcard Prints by Hasegawa Sadanobu III
Nakamura Ganjirō I as Akushichibyōe Kagekiyo (Taira no Kagekiyo). 1936. Konobu seal. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
This gallery primarily includes works by Hasegawa Sadanobu III but possibly others from the Hasagawa family line. The occasional question of artist attribution is due to the overlapping artistic careers within the family as well as the recurrent use of the Sadanobu and Konobu names. Sadanobu I (1809-1879) was the first artist in the line. Sadanobu II (1848-1940) used the artist name Konobu (Konobu 1) until the death of his father at which time he took on the Sadanobu name. His younger brother produced some prints which were also signed Konobu and is considered to be Konobu II; he never had the opportunity to inherit the Sadanobu name due to his early death in 1886 at age 20. Sadanobu III (1881-`1963), the son of Sadanobu II (Konobu I), also used the name Konobu (III) up until his father’s death in 1940. The naming tradition continued with Sadanobu IV (Konobu IV)(1914-1999) and Sadanobu V (Konobu IV)(b. 1946) who used Konobu until ascending to the Sadanobu name in 2003. Confounding the situation further, is a lack of consensus of the above historical naming sequence in the literature.
Bunraku Puppet Portrait. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
The courtesan Umegawa in a scene from the Bunraku play Meido no Hikyaku. Signed Konobu. 9.1 x 14.0 cm
Shirohige Myojin, the White-bearded God. New Year (Water Sheep) card for 1943. 8.9 x 13.9 cm
Jiraiya. 1932 New Year Card Monkey). 9.1 x 14.0 cm
Kataoka Gadō IV (later Kataoka Nizaemon XII) as Enya Hangan in a Chūshingura play. Konobu seal. Published by Moriei hanga do. c.1926-1941 9.0 x 13.9 cm
Unidentified Actor as Oguri Hangan. New Year (Horse) card for 1942. 8.9 x 14.2 cm
Kataoka Nizaemon XII as Akoya in the play Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki . New Year (Water Sheep) card for 1943. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Princess Fuse. A character from Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (Legend of the Eight Dog Chronicles). 1934 Dog Year Card. 9.1 x 14.5 cm
Unidentified Actor and Role. 1933 New Year Card.. 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Unidentified Kabuki Actor in Female Role. 9.1 x 14.2 cm
Actor in unidentified female role. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Unidentified Actor in Unidentified Role. New Year (Water Sheep) card for 1943. 9.1 x 14.5 cm
Portrait of an unidentified actor in a female roll on a hagoita. 1939. 9.1 x 14.3 cm
Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Hiyoshimaru (Toyotomi Hideyoshi). New Year (Wood Monkey) Card for 1944. 9.1 x 14.2 cm
Nakamura Baigyoku III as Miuranosuke in the play Kamakura Sandaiki. 9.0 x 14.2 cm
Possibly Nakamura Sanzaemon in an unidentified play. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Actor in unidentified male roll. 9.3 x 14.5 cm
Nakamura Baigyoku III as Ogiya Yugiri in the play Kuruwa Bunsho. 1946 or 1947. 9.1 x 14.2 cm
Ichimura Uzaemon XV as Hanakawado Sukeroku in the play Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura. Undated. 9.1 x 14.0 cm
Nakamura Utaemon V as Honzo Tsuma Tonase in Act 9 of the play Kanadehon Chushingura. Commissioned by Hamajima Shizunami for Muramatsu Hyakutoan (aka Muramatsu Shigeru). Between 1933-1937. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
Sawamura Sojuro VII as Oboshi's wife Oishi in the play Kanadehon Chushingura. 1933-1945 back. 8.9 x 14.0 cm
Nakamura Kichiemon I as Teraoka Heiemon in the play Hato no Heiemon. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Matsumoto Koshiro VII as Benkei in the play Kanjincho. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Nakamura Kaisha ! as Umekawa in the play Koi Bikyaku Yamato Orai.9.1 x 14.1 cm
Nakamura Kaisha as Otowa in Sekitori Senryo Nobori. 1933-1945 back. 9.0 x 14.3 cm
Ichikawa Shocho II as Sakura-hime in the play Sakurahime Azuma Bunsho. Pre-1933. 9.1 x 14.1 cm
Kataoka Gado IV as Akoya in the play Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki. 1933-1945 back. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Nakamura Fukusuke as Honzo's Daughter, Konami, in Kanadehon Chushingura. 1933-1945 back. 9.1 x 14.1 cm
Nakamura Baigyoku III as Sagami in the play Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki. 1933-1945 back. 9.0 x 14.2 cm
Nakamura Kaisha I as Kinshojo in the play Kokusen’ya Gassen. 1933-1945 back. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Son Goku, the Monkey King in the play Saiyûki. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.4 cm
Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Monju Saru in the play Monju Saru. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. WBPC 9.2 x 14.4 cm
Unidentified Performer in the dance Saruwaka. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.4 cm
Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Sanbaso. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Unidentified actors as Crab and Monkey in the play Saru Kani Gassen. New Year (Wood Monkey) card. for 1944. 9.1 x 14.2 cm
Nakamura Kichiemon I in an unidentified role. New Year (Water Sheep) card for 1943. 9.2 x 14.2 cm
Onoe Kikugoro VI as Yojiro, the monkey showman, in the play Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Unidentified actor and role. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.1 x 14.3 cm
Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Asahina. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.1 x 14.3 cm
New Year (Water Sheep) card for 1943. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
Son Gaku the Monkey King as a bunraku puppet. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.3 cm
New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. Likely referencing the Three Wise Monkeys.9.2 x 14.2 cm
Woman of Ohara. The Sanjo Bridge.. Published by Shueido. Between 1933 and 1945. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
Okaji in Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami. 9.1 x 14.4 cm
Unidentified actor in the role of the courtesan Miyagino in the play Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi. Published by Yamashita Sekiichi. 1933-1945 back. 9.0 x 13.9 cm
Hirai Gonpachi. Postcard Diptych, Left Panel 1936. 9.1 x 13.8 cm
Unidentified Actor as Banzuiin Chōbei. Postcard Diptych, Right Panel. 1936. 8.9 x 14.1 cm
Picture of the Battlefield. Postcard Diptych, Left panel. Possibly 1943. 9.2 x 14.0 cm
Picture of the Battlefield. Postcard Diptych, Right Panel. Possibly 1943. 9.1 x 14.0 cm
Unknown actor as Saruhiki the monkey trainer in the play Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru. Left panel from a New Year (Wood Monkey) triptych for 1944. 9.3 x 14.3 cm
Unidentified actor as On'na Daimyo in the play Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru. Center panel from a New Year (Wood Monkey) triptych for 1944. 9.3 x 14.2 cm
Unidentified Actor as the yakko Kippei in the play Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru. Right panel from a New Year (Wood Monkey) triptych for 1944. 9.1 x 14.4 cm
Envelope for year of the rat that included the following four postcards. 1918-1933 backs so likely printed for 1924.. 9.6 x 14.9 cm
Unidentified Actor and Role. 1918-1933 back. Likely published for year of the rat in 1924. 9.0 x 14.2 cm
Princess Yuki in Gion Sairei Shinkôki. 1918-1933 back. Likely published for year of the rat in 1924. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Unidentified image. 1918-1933 back. Likely published for year of the rat in 1924. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
Nikki Danjô in Meiboku Sendai Hagi or a related play. 1918-1933 back. Likely published for year of the rat in 1924. 9.0 x 14.0 cm
1938 Tiger New Year Postcard 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Unidentified Actor Portraying the Moon Rabbit Pounding Mochi. in the play Tama Usagi. 1939 Rabbit New Year Card. 9.0 x 14.2 cm
Unidentified actor in the role of Ichijō Ōkura. 1938 Year of the Tiger Card. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
The Shinto God Saruta Hiko no Mikoto. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 9.2 x 14.2 cm
A Shirabyoshi Dancer. Possibly depicting Hanako in the play Musume Dojoji. Pre-1933. 9.0 14.1 cm
1900-1907 back. 9.1 x 14.5 cm
A depiction of the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in the play Tsubosaka Reigenki. 9.0 x 14.1 cm
Princess Toki in the Play Kamakura Sandaiki (Chronicle of Three Generations in Kamakura). Before 1933 (Possibly between 1900-1907 based on undivided back). 9.0 x 14.0 cm
The Tsurubei Sushi Shop in the Lower Village of Ichimura from Act III, scene 3 of the play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees). 8.8 x 14.2 cm
Bunroku Scene. Tiger New Year Card. 1938. 14.8 x 9.3 cm
Hiyoshimaru (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) birth picture. New Year (Wood Monkey) card for 1944. 14.3 x 9.1 cm
Onatsu in the play Onatsu Kyoran. 1933-1945 back.14.1 x 9.0 cm
Doll and Tiger. Tiger New Year Card. 1938. 9.2 x 14.2 cm