無料で商用利用が可能な、完全著作権フリーの写真・画像・イラスト・絵画の素材集＋雑学三択クイズ。素材は「パブリックドメイン」なので、利用規約なし、クレジット不要、改変・再配布も可能。

Play: Semimaru Yôrô no Taki (?) Theater: Morita 蝉丸養老滝（せみまるようろうのたき）ヵ 森田

国周の三枚続き浮世絵「月雪花」のうち、「雪・両国柳はし舛田楼」の右端絵がこれ。４弦の胡弓を弾いているのは、紀の国やの喜代治姉さん。鼓が和泉や、三味線は舛田や、舞妓が海老や、そして胡弓が紀の国やの芸者ということはこの頃はまだまだ検番がたくさんあったということか。いい時代だ。浮世絵三曲合奏

These are (I think) illustrations of everyday images in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868), and are very likely from the 1974 book Om...

Artist: Toyohara Kunichika. Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa in Shibaraku, performed in November, 1895. December 2015 was a special anniversary for me. It marked exactly 30 years since I began writing English translations and explanations for the earphone guide service at the Kabukiza and the National Theatre in Tokyo. The […]

Youshuu Chikanobu (1838-1912) 楊洲周延 Mirrors of the Era 時代かがみ、1897

浮世絵のジャンルのひとつに「寄せ絵（だまし絵）」というものがあります。名前の通り人物や動物を寄せて、字や人の顔を描いた作品のことをいいます。寄せ絵は歌川国芳の作品が非常に有名で、浮世絵に特に興味のない人でも一度は作品を目にしたことがあるはず…

Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.

Ota Masumitsu, 1892-1975, is one of the lesser known artists of the Japanese shin hanga art movement who designed woodblock prints of kabuki actors. But that means in no way that his prints are inferior to those of Natori Shunsen or others. Ota Masamitsu is a tip for collectors of shin hanga and of modern kabuki prints.