'Strength' : Group 1

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'Strength' : Group 1
Matchlabel print   (Part of the set: Prints on the Theme of 'Strength')

Various
Ippinkai
1936

4.00 cm
6.00 cm

00111-001
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00111-001

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

The prints are numbered from top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

Print 1: Titled 相撲 (sumo). Two sumo wrestler dolls grapple with each other. Signed 久之信 (Iwasaki Kyunoshin (岩崎久之信)).
Print 2: Titled 引舟 (hikibune, "pulling a boat"). A man battles the wind and rain while pulling in a boat in this Hokusai-esque label. Signed 井上松芳 (Inoue Matsuyoshi).
Print 3: Titled キャッチャー (kyaccha, "catcher"). A catcher prepares to swipe a baseball from mid-air. Signed 津田行楽 (Tsuda Koraku).
Print 4: Titled 金棒持つ手 (kanabo motsu te, "hand holding a kanabo"). A hand attached to a muscled arm brandishes a kanabo war club. Signed 中尾燐花 (Nakao Rinka (also known as 中尾佐太郎 (Nakao Sataro))).
Print 5: Titled 行司 (gyoji, "sumo referee"). A sumo referee with his gunbai fan. Signed 上お (Kamio (Yakichi)). The artist's name in the index, however, reads 上村精功堂 (Uemura Seikodo).
Print 6: Titled 砲玉投 (ho-dama nage, "throwing a shotput"). A shotput athlete. Signed 岸上秋月 (Kishigami Shugetsu).
Print 7: Titled 競争 (kyosou, "a race"). An athlete stoops in a starting position for a race. Signed 北田晴彦 (Kitada Haruhiko).
Print 8: Titled 化粧まわし (kesho-mawashi). This keshō-mawashi outfit of a sumo wrestler has the characters 南吉 (referring to "Minami Yoshijiro" (南吉次郎, a member of this match label group)) emblazoned on it.
Print 9: Titled 走高跳 (hashiri-taka-tobi, "high jump"). A Japanese athlete participates in the high jump. Signed 白井皎雪 (Shirai Kosetsu).
Print 10: Titled 競馬 (keiba, "horseracing"). A racehorse about to win a race, in a beautiful Taisho/early Showa period style. The orange and yellow pigments have either been hand-applied or simply printed a little carelessly. The signed name (適所 (referring to 長谷川適所 (Hasegawa Tekisho), the sponsor) is pictured inside a horseshoe - a nice touch.
Print 11: Titled 相撲 (sumo). What appears to be a doll of a sumo wrestler, with a gunbai fan (which the referee uses to call a match) in the background. The wrestler's keshō-mawashi reads 葛山 ("Katsuyama"), referring to the sponsor, 葛山磐次 (Katsuyama Banji).
Print 12: Titled 引舟 (hikibune, "pulling a boat"). An image of an unknown statue, titled 引舟 (hikibune), signed by 田中嘉美 (Tanaka Hiromi).
Print 13: Titled 力石 (chikara-ishi, "lifting stone"). A large chikara-ishi rock used for tests of strength, painted with the character for "strength" (力) in red. Signed 山下翠松 (Yamashita Suisho).
Print 14: Titled 引舟 (hikibune, "pulling a boat"). Two people, probably fishermen, pull a ship in to shore. Signed 丸山松延 (Maruyama Matsunobu).
Print 15: Titled 相撲 (sumo). A sumo wrestler, possibly being thrown out of a ring. The skin-coloured bokashi gradation which creates a shadow on the wrestler's body is a highlight of the print. Signed 小林好燐 (Kobayashi Korin).

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