EDO - jingi greeting

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jingi o kiru 仁義を切る Yakuza greeting

When entering the home of a gang boss, the visitor had to stand in the entrance, bend his knees, left hand stretched out, palm up and the right hand at the hip.
He then introduces himself in a formal way, asking for a lodging or long-time stay.


- source : wiki - Kreislauf_des_Geldes -
This is the pose, but the statue is in Aachen, Germany.
(The figure symbolizing 'Bettelei' (Begging) in a group around a pond, Kreislauf des Geldes / Circulation of Money - by Karl Henning Seemann)
source :　vanderkrogt.net/statues
I must say, I have never seen a German (or European) beggar in this pose before . . . ?!

yakuza introduction, presenting bona fides
to make a formal salutation (between gamblers)
to observe thieves' niceties,
to inform the other party of a (negative) business development (ironical)
to make a formal introduction of oneself
to pay one's respects

kyookaku 侠客 Kyokaku, "chivalrous Yakuza person"
professional gambler in the Edo period

The Kyokaku were usually tall and strong persons, who could easily win a fight.
They also had the mental strength to lead others in their trade.

jingi means "humanity benevolence justice righteousness," "one's duty (to society" . . .

There are many translations and interpretations of this greeting.
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. yakuza, the Japanese mob　 .
Eta and Burakumin



source : 課題ブログ

o hikae nasute おひかえなすって


一身上の都合で旅人（たびにん。旅から旅に渡り歩く者）となった者も、手拭い1本あればその土地土地の親分を訪ね、一宿一飯の恩を蒙り、草鞋銭（わらじせん）を得て旅行することができたという。ただし、一言でも言い間違えたり、所作に間違いがあった場合は「騙り」とみなされ、袋叩きになって追い出され、殺されても不思議ではなかった。
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The Jingi -- or Yakuza's Code of Ethics --
is a written code of conduct or behavior that by the law of the Yakuza has been followed for the past several hundred years. Depending on the Oyabun-- Father figure (Chariman)-- one could be removed from a syndicate or clan by simply disregarding one of these rules. Some occurance, however, are dealt with in a forgiving manner. The afforementioned is not a general occurance, and will most likely not happen with you. It is up to one's own personal conviction to either follow, or disregard the Yakuza Code, but those who disrespect the code are scum, and are not considered Yakuza who honorably live by this code.
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4.) The Yakuza Code of Ethics prohibits anything that may be considered an indecent act,
or an act that goes against Ninkyodo (Chivalry).
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The Yakuza were known as the chivalrous organization of their community. The whole purpose of the Yakuza was to serve their own form of justice. Acts such as rape or kidnapping were not tolerated. If these acts were carried out against family members of the Yakuza (daughters, girlfriends, wives, sons, etc.), those who took offense from the action would deal with such in a quite grizzly matter. The Yakuza were firm believers in the rule, "A Life for A Life".
Example: If a man were to rape the daughter of a Yakuza, that man would be taking her innocence, and in turn her future. Because of this, the Yakuza who had been offended would take the life of the offender, thus taking their future from them as recompense. Another example of going against chivalry is treachery.
Treachery is something that could not be tolrated in the days of the Yakuza. This was usually punishable by the severing of the offender's pinky, and their immediate expulsion from the clan or syndicate as an act to show off that the Yakuza is a traitor and should not be part of another family so long as he lives... Depending on the Oyabun-- or father figure (Chairman)-- this could be an activity punishable by death. .....
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source : chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa

. oyabun 親分 boss - kobun 子分 gang member .
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ーーー　The four most famous Kyokaku "noble yakuza" outlaws of the Edo period :



. Banzuiin Chōbei 幡随院長兵衛 Banzuin Chobei . (1622–1657)
Asakusa, Edo - kyookaku no ganso 侠客の元祖 The first Kyokaku "chivalrous person"

. Kunisada Chuuji 国定忠治 Kunisada Chuji . (1810-1851)
Gunma, Shinshu
There is even a 忠治地蔵 Chuji Jizo Statue in his honor.

. Shimizu no Jirocho 清水次郎長 . (1820-1893)
Shimizu port, Shizuoka




侠客の世界──江戸から昭和まで Kyokaku no sekai - Edo kara Showa made
(The world of Kyokaku, from Edo to Showa)
村松梢風
江戸時代から昭和の始めにかけて、侠客は賭博（娯楽）をはじめとして、貸元・札差（金融・運送）、人入（人材派遣）、台屋（仕出し）、用心棒（警備）、火消（消防）、鳶職（建設）、米相場、芸能といった世界を仕切っていただけでなく、大物政治家たちの集会の手配、外国要人の警備もおこなっていた。
また、幕末繰り広げられた数々の戦いで官軍として戦った者の多くは侠客であった。侠客は日本の歴史の裏舞台であらゆる分野にわたって活躍していたといえる。本書は、幡随院長兵衛をはじめとして、かつて歌舞伎や浪花節、映画の主役として登場し、江戸から昭和まで庶民の人気を集めていた侠客について、様々な角度からその歴史、実態、伝説を紹介する。
- reference : kokusho.co.jp/np/isbn-

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Shinmon Tatsugoro 新門辰五郎
(?1792 / ?1800 - 1875)


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He lived in the late Edo period and the Bakumatsu times. He was leader of the fire brigade and 鳶頭、香具師、侠客、浅草浅草寺門番 warden of Asakusa Temple district.
The name "Shinmon" - new gate" refers to his job in Asakusa as warden of the New Gate.
金龍山浅草寺僧坊伝法院新門の門番


Shinmon lantern of the fire brigades is the second on the left.


He was also accepted by the 15th Shogun, 徳川慶喜 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who called on him and his gang to come to Kyoto and become 二条城の警備 guardsmen at the Nijo Castle. Yoshinobu forgot his 金扇馬標 golden fan of the Tokugawa clan when fleeing from the castle, but Tatsugoro got it back to him.


source : Toshogu Museum Kunosan

Tatsugoro later became guardsman at 上野寛永寺 the Kanei-Ji temple in Ueno, where Yoshinobu took residence.


His last poem before his death
思ひおく まぐろの刺身 鰒汁（ふぐとしる） ふっくりぼぼに どぶろくの味

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平成新講談 新門辰五郎―十番組纏づくし




新門辰五郎伝 - 早乙女貢

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu 徳川慶喜 (1873 - 1913)
the 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful. After resigning in late 1867, he went into retirement, and largely avoided the public eye for the rest of his life.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu was born in Edo, as the seventh son of Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyo of Mito. .....
1866 After the death of Tokugawa Iemochi in 1866, Yoshinobu was chosen to succeed him, and became the 15th shogun.
Boshin War (1868–69)
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川鯉の三尺三寸は侠客ぞ
kawagoi no sanjaku sanzun wa kyookaku zo

this river carp
of more than one meter
is a real chivalrous Yakuza . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve

奥山甲子男　Okuyama Kineo (1929 - 1998)

one shaku 一尺 ca. 30 cm // one sun 一寸 ca. 3 cm

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侠客の鮎にしらじら谿明くる
高澤良一

侠客の駈け抜けし径露どつと
吉田銀葉


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EDO - dokufu poisonous woman

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dokufu 毒婦 "poisonous woman"
akujo 悪女 "bad woman" in our modern vocabulary


近世悪女奇聞 / 綿谷雪
雷お新、高橋お伝、夜嵐お絹など 毒婦一七人 The life of seven Dokufu

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"Poison Women" and Early Meiji Writing
The notion of "poison women," or dokufu, was a prevalent topic among common readers during the early Meiji period. While the term itself comes from mid- to late-Edo period dramatic writing ­ particularly the Kabuki theater ­ in this context it refers to a group of women convicted in the first decades of Meiji of vicious crimes ranging from fraud and extortion to murder.
Names such as 夜嵐お絹 Yoarashi O-Kinu, 原田お絹 Harada O-Kinu, 高橋お伝　Takahashi O-Den,
鳥追お松　"Torioi" O-Matsu, and 花井お梅.Hanai O-Ume came to be widely known and associated with women of low birth whose chief characteristics were their unbridled sexuality, violent tempers, and greed.
But the notoriety of the "poison women" was tempered by the fascination in which they were held by the public at large. This fascination was enhanced by a series of sensational stories that appeared in the popular press of the time. These stories were a mixture of factual reportage and fictional embellishment, and most (but not all) portrayed their criminal heroines in a negative light. At the same time, their depiction of the "poison women" as sexually promiscuous enhanced the attraction such women held for their male readershipin particular, making these stories instant bestsellers once they were converted to book form.
This panel will examine several critical aspects of the early Meiji female criminals and the stories told about them. Marie Söderberg discusses aspects of the early Meiji newspaper industry, and provides a general overview of the medium in which these stories were presented. Ulla Frisk examines the historical basis of the "poison women," delineating, where possible, fact from fiction. Eiko Norlander looks at the aesthetic, literary angle of the stories, particularly their structural similarity to Kabuki. Matthew Strecher wraps things up with a discussion of structure and genre, discussing the "poison woman" stories as hybrid fact/fiction, an early form of literary journalism, and an important forerunner to the serialized newspaper novel.

1) "A Comparison of Japanese and Swedish Newspapers at the End of the 19th Century"
2) "Poison Women, Tsuzukimono, and the Development of the Meiji Newspaper Novel"
3) "On the Strolling Shamisen Player Omatsu's Adventures ­ Kabuki Plays and the Novel"
4) "The Female Character in dokufu Novels in the Early Meiji Period"
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- source : meijigakuin.ac.jp 2003


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Hanai O-Ume 花井お梅


source : ukiyoe-gallery.com
Hanai Oume Killing Kamekichi

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On a rainy summer night in 1887 a murder took place in one of Tokyo's entertainment districts. A geisha known as Hanai Oume stabbed her lover to death. Oume's open trial—shortly before the courts were opened to the general public for the first time—attracted widespread interest and caused a sensation.
This article focuses on the courtroom as a place of encounter between the law and the public. The public trials of the Meiji period are a good starting-point for describing the implementation of Western law in Japan. It thereby addresses the problem of the globalization of legal cultures in the 19th century, a topic which has been largely ignored in global history.
- Globalization of legal cultures in the 19th century. Criminal trials, gender, and the public in Meiji Japan
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Harada O-Kinu 原田お絹 / Yoarashi O-Kinu 夜嵐お絹



source : ameblo.jp/naomireturn/entry

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Yoarashi Okinu 夜嵐 おきぬ, ca.1845 - March 28, 1872)
is the moniker of Harada Kinu (原田 きぬ), who was a Japanese female poisoner and geisha and lived from the end of the Edo era to the beginning of the Meiji era. Her nickname Yoarashi means night-storm in Japanese.
..... As she was beautiful, people in the Edo longed for her. She became a mistress of Ōkubo Tadayori (大久保忠順) in the capital Edo. He was the daimyo of the Karasuyama Domain in Shimotsuke Province, which was rated at thirty thousand koku. Ōkubo had a son, the successor to the Ōkubo family, by her. However, he hated her, and abandoned her in the Meiji Restoration.
She became a mistress of Kobayashi Kinpei .....
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O-Miyo no Kata　お美代の方　Senkoin 専行院　
（1797 - 1872)
Concubine (sokushitsu) of 11th Shogun Tokugawa Ienari (1773 - 1841)
a maid-turned-adopted-daughter of a hatamoto

江戸幕府11代将軍徳川家斉の側室
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Kagero Ezu - Film



..... To continue enjoying wealth and power even after he passes away, Ienari's concubine Omiyo no Kata (Nakamura Yuko), who has been in his favour for a long time despite his legal wife Tadako (Shiraishi Kayoko), desires to have her own grandson Maeda Inuchiyo installed as the next shogun. Making use of his right-hand man Mizuno Minonokami (Kinoshita Houka) and others, Omiyo no Kata's backer Nakano Sekio (Kunimura Jun) wheels and deals for the purpose of making Ienari write the directive that will determine the next shogun. .....
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Shirakoya O-Kuma 白子屋お熊
(1703 - 1727)

She used to wear Kimono of the striped red and yellow 黄八丈　Kihachijo pattern.
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..... her crime made her the heroine of ningyō jōruri puppet plays.
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Takahashi O-Den 高橋お伝



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Takahashi Oden (1848 – January 31, 1879)
was a female Japanese murderer known for killing a man, and being the last woman in Japan to be put to death by beheading.
She was also suspected of poisoning her husband.
The movie Dokufu Oden Takahashi is based on her life. Director Shōgorō Nishimura's Roman porno film Crimson Night Dream (紅夜夢 Koyamu) (1983) also depicts Takahashi.
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Torioi O-Matsu 鳥追お松


By Utagawa Kunisada III 歌川国貞三代

Her exact dates are not known, but she lived in Tokyo in the Meiji period. She was famous for her beauty.

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. Yaoya o-Shichi 八百屋お七 . 　
（1668 - 1683)



月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi （八百屋お七）
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ひそみ立つ毒婦の墓や花山椒
hisomi tatsu dokufu no haka ya hana sanshoo

the lonely grave
of the poisonous woman -
mountain pepper blossoms
Tr. Gabi Greve

槫沼けい一 Kurenuma Kei-Ichi

. WKD : hana sanshoo 花山椒 flowers of mountain pepper .
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鬼灯や毒婦お伝の泣くような
hoozuki ya dokufu o-den no naku yoo na

these lampion flowers -
as if the poisonous woman O-Den
was crying

仁平勝 Nihira Masaru (1949 - )



. WKD : hoozuki 鬼燈 － 鬼灯 Chinese lantern plant .
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MINGEI - Tsujigahana dyeing Kubota Itchiku

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tsujigahana, tsuji ga hana 辻が花 "flowers at the crossroads" dyeing method


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It's not necessarily appropriate to define what "TSUJIGAHANA" is because there are few remaining data and existing kosode (short-sleeved kimono), but tsuji-ga-hana may be defined as "what is used on the premise of tie-dyeing with drawing pictures, impressing foil, and embroidering".

Tie-dyeing, which forms the basis of tsujigahana, has been traditional way of dyeing from Nara Period in Japan. There are various ways from those of basic and easy such as tying and bundling to those of difficult such as sawing outline of design and tying, and dyeing in different colors. The latter one is called "koukechi", which is the way that prevents dye stuff from penetrating a textile.

In concrete terms, advanced techniques, such as complicated sawing, tying and tightening, and take-kawa-shibori (tying with a bamboo leaf), are used. In the case of making dappled cloth, which has tiny pattern, we only need to tie textiles with a thread, but when to make big design, the techniques of maki-age-shibori (coiling up tying) and take-kawa-shibori are used. When we dye textiles in different colors, the technique of oke-shibori (tying with tub) is used.

Maki-age-shibori is the way that protect against dyeing by coiling up a part. Take-kawa-shibori is the way that protect against dyeing by covering a part with a bamboo leaf. Bamboo leaves are now replaced by easy-to-use plastic. Oke-shibori is the way that protect against dyeing by putting a part in a tub.



The name "tsuji-ga-hana" first emerged on a literature in the late 15th century. A literature says in 1596, Toyotomi Hideyoshi presented tsujigahana to an emissary from Ming as his/her farewell present. Tsuji-ga-hana, which range from simple tie-dyeing to impressing foil and embroidered gorgeous one, became fashionable in the public after a century from its birth. Simultaneously, the name "tsujigahana" seemed to have become popular as we associate kimono with "Yuzen".

As we see in kosode of katsurame (woman merchant), battle surcoat, remaining kimono in Tokugawa, and so on, the height was about from the Momoyama period to the Edo period. By improvement of Yuzen dyeing, tsuji-ga-hana lost its significance of existence and died out in course of time.

Recent years, though "tsujigahana" has been becoming public knowledge by receiving media exposure, it seems that tsuji-ga-hana is merely one of the designs; however, "tsujigahana" is consistently "tie-dyeing".
Tsujigahana is the technique which maximizes essential beauty of tie-dyeing by drawing pictures and impressing foil.
source : tsujigahana.com

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Tsujigahana (辻ヶ花) is a Japanese fabric dyeing technique that originated in the Muromachi era.
Tsujigahana is a variety of Kimono created by the technique of Shibori. The extravagant patterns were rather more picturesque and it was more eye-catching than other ordinary kinds of Kimono. Tsujigahana technique is in a shroud of mystery as it is not clearly known who invented it or why it was called Tsujigahana. The technique lasted for two era from Muromachi period to Edo period for about 300 to 400 years.



It quickly became forgotten after the rise of Japanese handicrafts technique. But Tsujigahana nevertheless contributed a lot for the decorative art phase in Azuchi-Momoyama period.
The art was revived by Itchiku Kubota (1918-2003). He was succeed by his son, Satoshi Kubota. Itchiku founded the Itchiku Kubota Art Museum. His collection of eighty kimono, known as the Symphony of Light, displaying the Four Seasons (including Oceans) and The Universe is a work in progress, passed from father to son.
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Itchiku Kubota (久保田　一竹 Kubota Itchiku) (1917-2003)
was a Japanese textile artist. He was most famous for reviving and modernizing a lost late-15th- to early-16th-century textile-dyeing and decorating technique called tsujigahana (literally, flowers at the crossroads).

Kubota left school at age 14 to become the apprentice of Kobayashi Kiyoshi, a Tokyo kimono artist who specialized in hand-painted yuzen (a paste-resist-dyeing technique). Kubota also studied other techniques for decorating fabrics, as well as Japanese-style landscape painting and portraiture. At the age of 20, he first saw a fragment of a textile in the tsujigahana style at the Tokyo National Museum, and decided to devote his life to recreating it. Because no instructions survive that explain how to reproduce the complex decorative techniques seen in tsujigahana, and because the silk fabric necessary for its successful production (nerinuki) is no longer woven, Kubota was forced to experiment on his own for decades.

In 1962, Kubota decided that there were too many technical problems surrounding his mission to recreate traditional tsujigahana. He would instead develop his own form of tsujigahana, called "Itchiku Tsujigahana," substituting a contemporary silk crepe fabric (chirimen) for nerinuki and synthetic dyes for natural colors. In 1977, when Kubota was 60 years old, he displayed his decorated kimono for the first time in an exhibition in Tokyo.

Kubota's grand scheme was a series of kimonos, called Symphony of Light, that would depict the "grandeur of the universe". An exhibit presenting part of the "grandeur of the universe" Kubota Itchi was shown in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. for 6 months in 1995 - the first time the Smithsonian presented an exhibit of a living artist. At the time of his death, he had completed 40 of his projected 80 kimono in the series. Kubota's unique vision for this series involved a decorative landscape design that flowed from kimono to kimono, resulting in a panorama of seasons and views.
Kubota's son and daughter continue their father's work at the artist's studio, Itchiku Kobo, in Tokyo.
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- HP of the Museum
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 - Introduction .

みやこ哉東西南北辻が花
miyako kana toozai nanboku tsujigahana

in Kyoto
east, west, south, north . . .
summer kimonos

This haiku has the prescript, "Imperial Capital," i.e., Kyoto. In Issa's day, this is where the emperor and his court lived. Political and military power was centered in the Shogun's city of Edo, today's Tokyo.

The phrase, "crossroads blossoms" (tsuji ga hana), is a euphemism for a light summer garment made of hemp: katabira. In this archive, I translate both katabira and awase as "summer kimono." Hiroshi Kobori explains that tsujiga-hana designs were in fashion from the mid-Muromachi era until the early Edo era; they were mostly dyed purple, red, and deep indigo ..." bold and marvelous."

Makoto Ueda writes that the "blossoms" (hana) refer to the colorful kimonos worn by the people of Kyoto; Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004) 28. Since kimono is a more widely known term than katabira, I use it in my translation, following professor Ueda's example.

Tr. and comment by David Lanoue
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提灯の火影にさきぬ辻が花
choochin no hikage ni sakinu tsujigahana

Tsujigahana
blossoms in the flickering light
of a lantern


白百合をさげて行きけり辻が花
sayuri o sagete ikikeri tsujigahana

. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 .




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初枕齢得て辻が花召して
依田明倫

女にて見まほしき子よ辻が花
松瀬青々

衣擦れの淑気やまして辻が花
鈴木鷹夫

辻が花纏はば婆娑羅冬立つ日
瀧澤和治

香水のかすかに母の辻が花
なかのまさこ


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Kato Gosuke 加藤五輔
(1839 – 1905)
He comes from a family of ceramic artists, now in the 5th generation.



加藤五輔（一八三七－一九一五年）(1837 - 1915)
は名工として誉れ高く、多治見の市之倉にあった五輔の窯は、染め付けの細密画という、髪の毛よりも細い線を多用した絵付けを得意としていた。曲面をなす磁器の素地に描いていくのであるから、並大抵のことではないが、その絵をみると、動物も植物も、繊細な筆致によって生き生きとした表情に仕上がっている。

むろん海外での評価が高く、明治九（一八七六）年にフィラデルフィア万国博覧会に出品された作品は、現在、イギリス屈指の名門、ヴィクトリア・アンド・アルバート美術館に収蔵されている。また、同十一（一八七八）年のパリ万博では銅賞を受けて、その地位を確固たるものとした。当時はジャポニスムの全盛期であり、細やかな絵付けをみた欧米人たちの感嘆の声が聞こえてきそうである。
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Mino ceramic artist from Gifu.



Mino ware, Japan made 1875

The glassy quality of the glaze and the vibrant hue of the blue found on this cup and saucer are typical of late nineteenth-century porcelains from Mino, which is located to the northeast of Nagoya in central Japan.
Kato Gosuke was a renowned painter of birds and flowers who went on to win several awards at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle. The cup and saucer were part of a group of over 200 ceramics bought on behalf of the V&A by the Japanese Exposition commissioners with funds provided by Philip Cunliffe-Owen, an ardent Japanophile who was director of the V&A from 1874 to 1893. The instructions sent to the commissioners were that they should 'make an historical collection of porcelain and pottery from the earliest period until the present time, to be formed in such a way as to give fully the history of the art.'
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His artwork at Yahata Kumano Shrine Ichinokura
It's not a big place, and very old, but it is quiet there and just a quick walk down the hill from our house. And like so many old Shinto shrines, it has its art treasures…but you have to look for them. In this case, the ceiling of a small, auxiliary building is where you can find the treasures…



treasures more than 150 years old, some by our local National Art Treasure, Kato Gosuke IV (1839–1905) and all by local artists who long ago lived in Ichinokura and who have passed on . All one has to do is walk up the time-worn wooden stairs and look up. Some of the paintings are so old that they have faded them almost beyond recognition, but if you look closely. . .








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DARUMA - Reich Matthias

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Reich Matthias Reich

Was Sie dachten, NIEMALS ueber JAPAN wissen zu wollen:
55 erleuchtende Einblicke in ein ganz anderes Land



Sushi, Godzilla, strahlende Atomkraftwerke und gebrauchte Damenwäsche aus Automaten – skurrile Gerüchte und bizarre Vorurteile gibt es über das Inselreich am Rande des Pazifiks wahrlich genug. Was allerdings die Wenigsten wissen: Die japanische Realität ist von all dem gar nicht weit entfernt.

Wussten Sie zum Beispiel, dass man in Japan rund ein Drittel eines Geschenkes in irgendeiner Form wieder zurückgeben soll? Oder dass es nichts Ahnungsloseres gibt als einen Taxifahrer in Tokyo? Dass Japaner ihre eigenen Orts- und Personennamen oftmals nicht lesen können? Und dass es kein elektrisches Gerät gibt, dem die Japaner mehr vertrauen als dem Fax?

In 55 unterhaltsamen, aber auch nachdenklichen Kapiteln klären wir Sie auf über das wahre Japan, das sich hinter dem fernöstlichen Schleier verbirgt und sich dem Fremden oft erst nach vielen Jahren erschließt. Trotz aller Exotik werden Sie dabei schnell merken: Japan ist skurril, Japan ist anders, aber auch in Japan kocht man nur mit Wasser – und einem Schuss Sojasoße, versteht sich.

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»Ein super Einstieg für Japan-Neulinge:
Die bekanntesten Vorurteile, entmystifiziert.«
(JapanLiteratur.net)

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Inhaltsverzeichnis des humorvollen japanischen Kulturenthüllers
»Was Sie dachten, NIEMALS über JAPAN wissen zu wollen«

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Warum Japaner sich von einem fehlenden Enzym nicht vom Alkoholgenuss abhalten lassen

»Japanische TV-Shows sind nur was für Hartgesottene« |
Aus dem Flimmerkasten kommt Seichtes, Schrilles, Schräges

»In Japan gilt: Wo ein Stempel, da ein Weg« |
Das japanische Gegenstück zur Unterschrift ist nicht ohne Tücken

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Matthias Reich
hat ursprünglich Geografie studiert, arbeitet und lebt jedoch seit nun mehr als 10 Jahren als Geschäftsführer einer rein japanischen IT-Firma in Japan. Seit über 15 Jahren schreibt er an einer ausführlichen Webseite über seine Wahlheimat sowie für japanbezogene Magazine. Sein erstes Buch (Japan - ein modernes Lesebuch) erschien im Jahr 2012. Er schreibt und spricht fließend Japanisch und lebt mit seiner japanischen Frau nebst Kindern in Kawasaki.

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EDO - Tokugawa Muneharu

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Tokugawa Muneharu 徳川宗春
(1696 - 1764)
The Tokugawa Owari Clan　尾張徳川



Muneharu shared a lot with Shogun Yoshimune.
Since he lived with the common people in his youth, he knew about the problems of the poor and tried to improve their lot throughout his life.

. Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune　徳川吉宗将軍 .
(1684 - 1751)


Yet later Muneharu could not agree with the severe frugality laws and sumptuary edicts of Yoshimune.
In Edo he favored the Yoshiwara courtesan Koshikibu (who later changed her name to Koharu).
In 1731 he became the Daimyo of Owari (Nagoya).
In his quest to improve the life of the people of Owari (Nagoya), he had theaters built in town, held colorful festivals and revived the economy in no time. He is also known for personal luxury, but this was his gesture to show how spending money by the rich would trickle down to the poor in town.
The population of Nagoya grew very fast during his reign.

. Nagoya karakuri ningyoo　名古屋　からくり人形 from Aichi .
The Legacy of the Tamaya Shobei family.

He revived the Festival floats with karakuri ningyo からくり人形 delicate mechanical dolls to an extend that the skilled craftsmen of Nagoya are famous to our day (Nagoya no monozukuri).

Muneharu also encouraged Noh, Kyogen and the tea ceremony.




He paraded in the streets with a huge hat and a long pipe of about 2 meters, riding a white oxen.


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But whatever worked well for the economy of Nagoya would not be accepted by Yoshimune for the whole of Japan.

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Tokugawa Muneharu 徳川 宗春, November 20, 1696 – November 1, 1764
was a daimyo in Japan during the Edo period. He was the seventh Tokugawa lord of the Owari Domain, and one of the gosanke.

Muneharu was the 20th son of Tokugawa Tsunanari by a concubine, and a great-great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. During his lifetime, he rose to the junior third rank in the Imperial court, and held the titular office of Gon-Chūnagon (acting middle councilor). He was posthumously awarded the junior second rank and the office of Gon-Dainagon (acting great councilor). Among his brothers were Tokugawa Yoshimichi and Tokugawa Tsugutomo (the fourth and sixth lords of Owari), and Matsudaira Yoshitaka (second lord of the Mino Takasu Domain). A sister, Matsuhime, married Maeda Yoshinori, lord of the Kaga Domain, which was the richest domain in Japan outside the Tokugawa's own holdings. Muneharu did not marry, but had numerous concubines. His fourth daughter married the kampaku Konoe Uchisaki.

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Given to personal luxury, in 1731, Muneharu published a book, Onchiseiyō (温知政要), which criticized ruling shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune for his policy of excessive frugality.
In 1739, following a long dispute with Yoshimune, Muneharu was forced into retirement and confined within the grounds of Nagoya Castle. A relative succeeded him as lord of Owari, taking the name Tokugawa Munekatsu. After the death of Yoshimune, Muneharu moved outside the palace grounds. He died in 1764, but was not forgiven, and a metal net was placed over his grave to indicate his status. When a later shogun installed his own son as lord of Owari, 75 years after the death of Muneharu, he had the net removed as a gesture of pardon.
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Onchiseiyō (OnchiSeiyo, Onchi Seiyo) 温知政要 - published 1731





慈悲憐憫が第一の学問



「忍」の二文字を戒めとする


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徳川宗春 江戸を超えた先見力
Tokugawa Muneharu : Edo o koeta senkenryoku.

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. kenyaku 倹約 frugality, thrift - Sparsamkeit .
. Buke shohatto 武家諸法度 Laws for the Samurai .
12 Samurai throughout the realm are to practice frugality.


「増税派の吉宗」Yoshimune for more taxes
and
「減税派の宗春」Muneharu for less taxes





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"The theme of this karakuri is created on the image of Tokugawa Muneharu, the 7th Lord of the Owari Clan.
Tokugawa Muneharu was a multi-talented lord of strong individuality.
He wandered the streets of Nagoya wearing showy clothes, surprising people with his unique appearance. He also promoted local commerce and arts. By so doing, he greatly contributed to the economic and cultural development of Nagoya."
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徳川宗春 - 徳川美術館 Tokugawa Bijustukan Nagoya

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