Selected Works代表作品

In the Vedas (ヴェーダ), the fundamental scriptures of Brahmanism (バラモン教), he is one of three gods, together with the sun god and the moon god (日天、月天), and is a god of honor and blessing. He later became one of the world-protecting deities (護世天) and the guardian of the northwest. In Japan he is shown naked, carrying a bag of wind on his shoulders as he races across the sky.

He brings thunder and lightning. Demon-like in appearance, he wears a loincloth of tiger skin, carries a ring of drums on his back and holds drumsticks in his hands.

Oshichi was the only daughter of Ichizaemon (八百屋市左衛門), a greengrocer in Komagome, Hongō, Edo (江戸本郷駒込). Burned out of her home by a great fire, she took refuge at her family’s temple (檀那寺), where she fell in love with a young temple page. Overcome by longing, she became convinced that another fire would let her see him again, and set one herself. The incident became the jōruri play commonly called Yagura no Oshichi (「櫓のお七」), and its scene of Oshichi climbing the fire tower in falling snow to beat the drum won great popularity.

At a rehearsal performance held for the pregnant Fujitsubo (藤壺), Genji (源氏) dances Seigaiha (青海波) beneath the autumn leaves and wins great praise.

From the kabuki dance play Funa Benkei (「船弁慶」). Tomomori (知盛), a son of Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛), was defeated by the Genji at Dannoura (壇ノ浦) and took his own life. He returns as a ghost on the sea at Daimotsu Bay (大物浦), wielding a halberd (長刀) to torment Yoshitsune (義経) and his party.

A kabuki dance whose theme is the love between parent and child, drawn from the tale of the lion that throws its cub from a cliff (獅子の子落し). Before a painted pine backdrop (松羽目), two kyōgen performers dance the wild movements of the parent lion and its cub.

From Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (「助六所縁江戸桜」), one of the Kabuki Jūhachiban (歌舞伎十八番). Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六), who is in fact Soga Gorō (曾我五郎), frequents the Yoshiwara (吉原) in search of the famous sword Tomokirimaru (友切丸). He picks a quarrel with the bearded Ikyū (意休), who is pursuing Agemaki (揚巻) of the Miuraya (三浦屋), and at last takes the sword back from him.

Centered on Hamachō 3-chōme in Nihonbashi (日本橋浜町三丁目) in the mid-Taishō era, the work depicts Ryōgoku Bridge (両国橋) and the flow of the Ōkawa River (大川). It is a landscape the artist remembered from his youth.