Tatebanko

[John Wagenseil]

Links to Tatebanko:

SPECIAL GALLERIES ..... DARUMA MUSEUM (03): Tatebanko Diorama

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Explore Japanese sites at your own risk, they set up there sites a little differently than is done in North America, so a Japanese site may have side by side links to Hello Kitty, and X rated material.

Use this for a Google search term: 組上げ絵.

Use this for a Google search term: 立版古（たてばんこ）

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Explore Japanese sites at your own risk, they set up there sites a little differently than is done in North America, so a Japanese site may have side to side links to Hello Kitty, and X rated material.

A droolworthy but frustrating display:
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An impressionistic tatebanko of railroad under contruction that can be downloaded:

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Not a tatebanko but a paper model self motivated car:
http://www.geocities.jp/kikousya290821/dlm.html

[Pat_craft]

Thanks for the links !

Unfortunatly, I had explored most of them before and I haven't found many interresting things.

Tatebankos are very rare on the internet... But I continue to explore regularly...

In few times, I will have two tatebankos because a friend of me is in japan for hollydays (She will buy them via the toy toraya site. But even in this internet shop, the most of the models are no more to sell... ).

I will have those two ones :

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O f course, I will posted when I will bluit them.

[John Wagenseil]

The Japan Tobacco Museum had a recent special exibit which included a Tatebanko printed in 1911:

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The scene depicted is Lord Asano attacking Lord Kira.

Lord Asano was an unsophisticated provincial lord who was assigned duties at the Imperial Palace in Edo.
Lord Kira was given the duty to teach Asano proper court etiquette. However, Lord Kira aledgedly refused to do so without first receiving a substantial bribe. Asano is reputed to have presented Lord Kira with a gift of dried fish.
Not knowing proper court proceedure placed Asano in embarrassing situations.
Frustrated and driven to fury, Asano pulled his short sword and attached Kira, wounding him. This was a display of bad manners and a breech of protocol. Asano was asked to kill himself.
Asano's fief was given to another family, his relatives were dispossesed, his retainers reduced to poverty and dispersed.
Three years later, 47 of Asano's former retainers invaded Kira's mansion, hunted him down, and when he refused to act on their request that he kill himself, they hacked off his head. The 47 ronin carried Kira's head across Edo and deposited it on Asano's grave.
Their act was generally approved of, but it was an unregistered vendetta against a higher ranking person. After much deliberation, the 46 oldest ronin were asked to commit suicide. These events took place in the first decade of the 1700's.
The story has been the subject of plays, books and over a dozen movies and TV series.

The prints were made in 1911. They are no longer protected by copyright. They can be copied, tweaked with Irfanview or Paint.net, printed and built.

[Pat_craft]

Thank you very much for this explanation about the tatebanko.

There are 3 tatebankos on this site, that I knew.
But all the pictures are really too small to be used...

I founded more than a dozen of tatebankos here, but sadly none of them is big enough too...