Category Archives: Kunichika

Kabuki All Stars, #2 Danshichi

Posted on April 19, 2020 by

Download this Danshichi Kabuki card as a PDF by clicking this link.

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Spring – What Spring?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by

The spring 2020 exhibition at the Toshidama Gallery was meant to be about spring. The joy of new life; cherry blossom, budding trees, love, birth, renewal… alas,  how the world is plunged into fear and illness and despair. Life nevertheless … Continue reading →

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Sugoroku Magic – Shimidzu no Kwanja Yoshitaka

Posted on July 30, 2019 by

What a spendid rat! The magician riding along here is not Nikki Danjo – the great kabuki villain who transforms into a rat in order to steal a valuable scroll – this chap is Shimidzu no Kwanja Yoshitaka. He was … Continue reading →

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Sugoroku Magic – Jiraiya

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

A series of magicians and ghosts all taken from squares on a nineteenth century sugoroku board by the artist Kunichika Continue reading →

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Sugoroku Magic – Princess Yuki

Posted on July 16, 2019 by

The image above is the top centre panel from an amazing Sugoroku game board designed by the artist Toyoharu Kunichika in the 1860’s. You can see the whole board at the Toshidama Gallery website by clicking this link: Sugoroku Board. … Continue reading →

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Sugoroku Magic – Unryu-kuro

Posted on July 12, 2019 by

This tremendous image of a magician floating on a magical cloud-dragon is the neighbour of the image of the Ghost of Seigen – the previous entry- from the stunning supernatural Sugoroku board we are showing at the Toshidama Gallery… the … Continue reading →

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Magical Sugoroku

Posted on July 4, 2019 by

A sugoroku board that is a a good compendium of Japanese magicians and supernatural stories. Continue reading →

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