MisemonoArtisti di strada nel mondo fluttuante

Utagawa Kunitora“Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryôgoku Bridge in Edo: A Great

Display of Fireworks”(Edo Ryôgoku-bashi yûsuzumi ôhanabi no zu)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Utagawa KuniyoshiTitolo Sconosciuto

Performance di giocoleria con palladell’artista Kikukawa Kunimaru.1841Stampa, 36x17cm (ôtanzakuban)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi“流行猫の曲鞠”

Parodia dell’artista Kikukawa Kunimaru1841

Stampa, 36x25cm

Utagawa KuniyoshiHappiness in One Style of Entertainment(Ichiryû kyoku dokuraku)

c. 1843Victoria and Albert Museum, Londra

Stampa, 36x25cm

c. 1843Victoria and Albert Museum, Londra

Stampa, 36x25cm

Utagawa KuniyoshiHappiness in One Style of Entertainment(Ichiryû kyoku dokuraku)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi“Takezawa Toji at the Inari Shrine” ca. 1841

Stampa, 25x36cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Utagawa Kuniyoshi“Takezawa Toji e il leone”1842-1846Stampa, 36x25cm

Utagawa Kuniyoshi“Takezawa Toji e il fantasma”

1842-1846Stampa, 36x25cm

Katsushika Hokusai,“Hokusai Manga”

1819

Katsushika Hokusai,“Hokusai Manga”

1819

Katsushika Hokusai“Hotei e i bambini acrobaticinesi”

Da:“Il libro dei dipinti realistici diHokusai”(Hokusai shashin gafu)

Hotei, uno dei sette déidella fortuna, e due bambini acrobati cinesi. ca. 1840Inchiostro su carta49,8x36,6 cm

Torii Kiyomitsu“Acrobata, Daruma-otoko” (Karuwaza-shi daruma-otoko)

XVIII secoloInchiostro su carta30.3 x 13.5 cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Utagawa Toyonobu“Acrobati”

30.8 x 14 cm (Hosoban)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Autore sconosciuto“Acrobati” (dettaglio)

ca. 1800

Utagawa Kunisada“L’acrobata Hayatake Torakichiin tour a Osaka”

1857Inchiostro su carta35,5x24,2cmEdo Tokyo Museum

Utagawa Yoshitora“Acrobati su cavalli” e “Acrobati dall’India Centrale a Yokohama”

1864Stampe, 36.2 x 24.4 cm

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Ochiai Yoshiiku“Festa fra stranieri dei Cinque Paesi alla casa del tè Gankirō”

(Gokakoku Gankirô ni okeru sakamori no zu)1861

38,1 x 25,4cm (ogni pezzo)

Fonti:• The Carnival of Edo: Misemono Spectacles from contemporary accounts

(Andrew .L. Markus) – Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies vol. 45 n.2 (Dic. 1985)• The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture (Timon Screech) -

Archives of Asian Art, vol.47 (1994)• I Sakariba: Fiere e spettacoli di strada a Edo (Rossella Marangoni) – Articolo per

“Zen World”• Rivista bimestrale “Rekihaku”, n.118 “A Witness to History”

(www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english/publication/rekihaku/118witness.html)

• “The floating world of ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substance” Exhibition” (www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/intro.html)

• Koneko no heya – Kyokumari (www.konekono-heya.com/ukiyoe/kyokumari.html)

• Kindred Subjects: Art Stories from New York City, Objects From The Metropolitan Museum of Art (kindredsubjects.blogspot.it)

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (www.mfa.org)

• Kuniyoshi Project (www.kuniyoshiproject.com)

• Katsushika Hokusai, The complete works (www.katsushikahokusai.org/)

• Ukiyo-e Search (ukiyo-e.org/)