Web Page with Collection of Paper Model Sites

[papermodelfan]

Thanks for sharing these surprises , John. I have not seen this before. It has some similarities to one I have seen, that ran to 7 sheets. It seems to be missing the first and last sheet, which would have the identifying script. The upper right panel does have a small sketch of the finished model, a feature that might suggest an Osaka origin. It is a bit of a puzzle that the usual title strip at the top is missing on these. Cheers, Rob T

[papermodelfan]

Thanks for sharing these surprises, John. I have not seen this before. It has some similarities to one I have seen, that ran to 7 sheets. It seems to be missing the first and last sheet, which would have the identifying script. The upper right panel does have a small sketch of the finished model, a feature that might suggest an Osaka origin. It is a bit of a puzzle that the usual title strip at the top is missing on these. Cheers, Rob T

[John Wagenseil]

A museum in Kumamoto offered a series of lectures about paper making.
2 of the discussions featured Tatebanko, which are printed on paper.
It is possible to gaze with extreme longing on the images of the tatebanko pages, but they are too small, of too low resolution, to be printed and assembled.
http://www.city.yatsushiro.kumamoto....pdf/washi4.pdf
http://www.city.yatsushiro.kumamoto....pdf/washi5.pdf
If you want to see the other files of the presentation, insert numbers 1 through 9 where the 4 and 5 appear above.


(Rob, thanks for the commentary; like many of the tatebanko I have found on-line, the images of the Chusingura tatebanko set, are incomplete, and just a little bit too small to be printed on letter or legal size paper, and displayed or assembled. I like the ones from the mid 19th c. which were printed before imported synthetic dyes became readily available in Japan.)

[John Wagenseil]

A post about the tatebanko displayed at the Amagasake City Museum of History.
秀吉伝説の立版古(たてばんこ)@尼崎市立歴史博物館 | 大阪の文楽、落語、歌舞伎の面白さを伝える古典芸能案内人。天野光

[John Wagenseil]

A tatebanko assembly tutorial from Japan,
https://www.city.tateyama.chiba.jp/files/300353169.pdf
This is a special animated tatebanko with a moving background panel.

Warning, there is an image of a fierce large cat, a fallen woman, and a cat demon.

[John Wagenseil]

A tatebanko of a front yard brawl that you are not allowed to download.
錦絵拡大図｜文化デジタルライブラリー (jac.go.jp)

[John Wagenseil]

I found an essay about Edo Period Japanese townhouses.
I apologize that there is no paper model, however, there are plans and photographs, that provide enough information for the ambitious builder to construct his/her own model of an 19th c. Japanese merchant or samurai house.
https://mlib3.nit.ac.jp/webopac/bdyv..._394&once=true

[John Wagenseil]

The Hokusai Bath house tatebanko revisited:

Images of the completed tatebanko:
新・北斎展 HOKUSAI UPDATED オフィシャルグッズ | 製造事例 | 紙工通信 | 福永紙工
森アーツセンターギャラリーで「新・北斎展」を観た！（その１）の画像
https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/watashin...f/2f5389bb.jpg
https://ima.xgoo.jp/column/img2/niji/hok5.jpg
https://ima.xgoo.jp/column/img2/niji/hok7.jpg

A museum commissioned a life size construction of the tatebanko:
https://edo-g.com/blog/2019/03/hokusai.html/hokusai25_l

How to instructions:
https://ameblo-jp.translate.goog/mek...x_tr_pto=op,sc
and
http://www2.ssh.nir.jp/~y-yoshi-1234/furo/furo_p1.html

Download the tatebanko:
I had previously uploaded high-resolution images of worm-eaten faded prints of the Hokusai Bath House tatebanko to PaperModelers.
I recently found a site with medium resolution images of a higher quality set of prints.

Medium resolution images of high-quality original prints:
https://shimane-art-museum-ukiyoe.jp...ta/h23-01.html
High resolution images of a faded worm chewed original print set:
https://www.papermodelers.com/forum/...ownloadid=2700

[John Wagenseil]

The Hokusai Bath house tatebanko revisited:

Images of the completed tatebanko:
新・北斎展 HOKUSAI UPDATED オフィシャルグッズ | 製造事例 | 紙工通信 | 福永紙工
森アーツセンターギャラリーで「新・北斎展」を観た！（その１）の画像
https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/watashin...f/2f5389bb.jpg
https://ima.xgoo.jp/column/img2/niji/hok5.jpg
https://ima.xgoo.jp/column/img2/niji/hok7.jpg

A museum commissioned a life size construction of the tatebanko:
https://edo-g.com/blog/2019/03/hokusai.html/hokusai25_l

How to instructions:
https://ameblo-jp.translate.goog/mek...x_tr_pto=op,sc
and
http://www2.ssh.nir.jp/~y-yoshi-1234/furo/furo_p1.html

Download the tatebanko:
I had previously uploaded a high-resolution image of worm-eaten faded prints of the Hokusai Bath House tatebanko to PaperModelers.
I recently found a site with medium resolution images of a higher quality set of prints.

Medium resolution images of high-quality original prints:
https://shimane-art-museum-ukiyoe.jp...ta/h23-01.html
High resolution images of a faded worm chewed original print set:
https://www.papermodelers.com/forum/...ownloadid=2700

Careful Photo Shopping(tm) might result in a set of prints as good as the day they were originally pulled off the woodblock.
The street level grill is the most difficult part to make. The poster of the second instruction set did not have the courage to attempt it.

[John Wagenseil]

A Japanese language brochure about the history of tatebanko:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article.../_pdf/-char/ja