Web Page with Collection of Paper Model Sites

[John Wagenseil]

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[John Wagenseil]

Colorful Portable Shrine Paper Models:
おうちで はちはく ～桑都日本遺産センター八王子博物館～を自宅で楽しめます｜八王子市公式ホームページ

The downloads are links to PDF files about 1/2 way down the page. One of the files is a very useful illustrated instructional about how to assemble the paper models of traditional portable shrines. Colorful models would make a nice display and great addition to collection of portable shrines (parade floats) which have been posted previously.

There are also coloring book paper models on the web page, and if you are willing to download an Adobe program, a virtual reality display of a flying squirrel.

Bonus tatebanko; Mounted Samurai fighting in front of a villa.
牧金之助｢明治座当り狂言悪源太組上三枚読｣ | 山田書店美術部オンラインストア

I apologize if I am over-posting. It seems that recent improvements in either Google translate, or Google Search have allowed me to discover more Japanese paper model and tatebanko postings, which I want to share with Paper Modelers members.
Most of the tatebanko, however, are late Edo or early Meiji productions, the early 19th c. tatebanko remain elusive.
I am still looking for a better set of prints of the Kabuki Theater tatebanko, and teahouse tatebankos. The posting I made recently of the Hokusai New Bathhouse is the best quality set I have found; the image files show the least damaged originals that I have seen without the moth damage seen on other postings.

[papermodelfan]

I very much appreciate your sleuthing, John. The ephemeral nature of tatebanko remains a challenge. I wonder if museum collection of woodblock print art may have a few still to be discovered, like the two Hokusai at the Boston museum of fine arts.

[John Wagenseil]

Originally Posted by papermodelfan

I very much appreciate your sleuthing, John. The ephemeral nature of tatebanko remains a challenge. I wonder if museum collection of woodblock print art may have a few still to be discovered, like the two Hokusai at the Boston museum of fine arts.

I just found a Japanese University maintained web site with a huge (humongous, gigantic,supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ) collection of Kabuki themed 100 year old tatebanko.



I posted a couple of URLs from the site. Semi random clicking lead to other pages with different formats (the thumbnails are presented differently) with many sets of tatebanko.


Here are some samples:



Kabuki actors surround an ox cart, a five sheet tatebanko. The page links to high resolution images of each uncut sheet:
浮世絵検索システム - 続・組

A picture of the assembled tatebanko:
http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archiv...FP/ho728_A.jpg


A gaudy tatebanko of Samurai fighting gods (they do not appear to be winning):
The completed tatebanko:
http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archiv...e/NMYwghHJ.jpg
The uncut tatebanko woodblock print:
松竹大谷図書館所蔵「組上燈籠絵」検索閲覧システム基本情報表示
or
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archi...urou/ho763.jpg
or
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/r...ochiku&lang=ja
or
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results.php?f1[]=SOho763%2A&f11[]=1&-format=results-1p.htm&skip=0&-max=1&enter=shochiku&lang=ja





A page indexing many Early Edo Period tatebanko advertising Kabuki play productions:
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results.php?f44[]=%E7%B5%84%E4%B8%8A%E7%87%88%E7%B1%A0&-format=results-1p.htm&-max=30&skip=30&enter=shochiku&lang=ja
More index pages with many thumbnails of tatebanko, discovered by semi-random button clicking:
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/r...ochiku&lang=ja
and
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/r...ochiku&lang=ja
and

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/r...ochiku&lang=ja
and

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results.php?f9[]=%2A&f11[]=1&f49[]=%E6%9D%BE%E7%AB%B9%E5%A4%A7%E8%B0%B7%E5%9B%B3%E6% 9B%B8%E9%A4%A8&-max=50&skip=50&enter=shochiku&lang=ja





General Collection of Kabuki theme, scenes from plays, actor portraits, occasional tatebanko, etc.
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/
Good luck navigating it.



These pages are on the Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University Web site. It has a huge collection of digitized late Edo and early Meiji Kabuki theater themed wood block prints, some of which are tatebanko.
The site is extremely difficult for Japanese illiterates to get around in and is resistant to Google translation. I stumbled across the index page essentially by random clicking . Clicking on the thumbnail images leads to full sized hi-resolution images that can be downloaded and printed in their original oban size (The most common print size was the oban (大判) format (which used half of a large o-bosho sheet), approximately 39.4 x 26.5 cm.)
Anyway, poking buttons revealed hundreds of complete sets of multisheet tatebanko from about 1880 to 1910.
For Chanbara (チャンバラ) (sword fighting movie) addicts there appear to be many prints of 47 Ronin productions and actors, as well as many tatebanko of iconic scenes from the 47 ronin. Some kabuki versions of the 47 Ronin could last for several days.
There are also several versions of Yoshiwara tatebanko showing yujo and oiran on display.
A couple of the tatebanko have special effects, moving parts.


I clicked on a button that lead offsite to other sites with large libraries of prints, with many examples of different pulls of the same print (different editions or inkings of the same set of blocks).


Please have much happiness and enjoyment exploring this treasure trove of tatebanko, hosted in Japan.

[John Wagenseil]

The 47 Ronin invade Lord Kira's estate, the rout of the concubines (inside the rear building where you cannot see them), the famous fight on the bridge, and the discovery of the cowardly Lord Kira's hiding place:
The assembled scene:
http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archiv...e/1QkOL74P.jpg
Kira should have a large healing scar on his forehead where Lord Asano sliced him; you can draw it ( in bright red) when you assemble the tatebanko:
http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archiv...e/DSC05688.JPG
The first sheet with assembly hint
Object not found!
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/SOho764(04‐3)/portal/

The complete set of 5 sheets, to download, print on 14 by 11 inch papers (or larger), and build:
ARC浮世絵ポータルデータベース/Ukiyo-e Portal Database - 検索結果


I could not resist making this last post, after finding this long looked for tatebanko. Several tatebanko versions of this scene exist, and most famous woodblock artists of the 19th century had a go at carving prints of the famous scenes from the theatrical plays about the 47 Ronin.



(After making this you will be prepared to watch the dozens of movies and TV series and YouTube kabuki plays of the Chusingura/47 Ronin story (but do yourself a favour and avoid the Hollywood Keanu Reeves movie)).

[Viator]

Originally Posted by John Wagenseil

(After making this you will be prepared to watch the dozens of movies and TV series and YouTube kabuki plays of the Chusingura/47 Ronin story (but do yourself a favour and avoid the Hollywood Keanu Reeves movie)).

But it will not be easy to distinguish movies and books containing the original story (Shijūshichishi) from the fantasies and variations on it (Chūshingura).

I personally would also recommend the comic book by Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai "47 rōnin" by Dark Horse, with drawings slightly stylized as old japanese woodcuts - maybe someone will try to make a tatebanko diorama with Sakai-san characters? .

[John Wagenseil]

I would have posted this sooner, but my access to Papermodellers.com was temporarily blocked by Cloudflair.
I noticed that some of the URLs I had posted on " "Giant Tatebanko Repository on Japan University Web Site" /
https://www.papermodelers.com/forum/...-post1104.html "
no longer lead to a collection of tatebanko thumbnails, but rather portraits of Kabuki actors.

This is the permalink to the first tatebanko image on an index page of tatebankos:

松竹大谷図書館所蔵「組上燈籠絵」検索閲覧システム基本情報表示

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results-big.php?f1=SOho679(01%e2%80%901)&f11=1&enter=shoch iku

Click on the characters for "toy painting" in the line labeled "Phylogenetic Classification" (Please learn Japanese or use a web page translator.) and a page with thumbnails for tatebanko images will (hopefully) appear.
There seem to be about 160 total tatebanko sheets available to download. The total number of tatebanko pages that can be accessed at any given time seems to vary depending on what page you start your search path.
If all else fails, find a page with an image of the print, and its catalogue information, and click to open in a new tab, everything that can be clicked.
Depending on how it is accessed the URL of the tatebanko index page, seems to be temporary, generated as the result of a search of “toy paints’ or similar originating on the University web site.
I hope this helps, I apologize if the posted links that did not lead to tatebanko caused confusion or disappointment.

[John Wagenseil]

Object not found!
松竹大谷図書館所蔵「組上燈籠絵」検索閲覧システム基本情報表示

[John Wagenseil]

Furukawa Castle Imperial Three-Floor Tower


A tower, rather basic paper model:
http://koga-shigakukai.com/kogajoutopics.html
Direct link to paper model
http://koga-shigakukai.com/papercraft1-1_r_3_lb.jpg
The finished model
http://koga-shigakukai.com/papercraft1-2_r_3_lb.jpg
The modeled tower
http://koga-shigakukai.com/papercraft1-3_r_3_lb.jpg

[John Wagenseil]

Paper craft Mechas (Giant robots from Japanese anime) from a site not in Japan.
This are mostly models to purchase, with a few free samples scattered around web site.
http://tos-craft.blogspot.com/