Utsushie Toraku - Utsushie Toraku

Japanese: うつしゑ都楽 - うつしえとらく
Utsushie Toraku - Utsushie Toraku

...Utsue (transparent pictures) suffered the same fate. This is a moving magic lantern, and was invented around the Kyowa period (1801-04) when Utsushietoraku (Fujikawa Toraku) was inspired by the "Dutch Ekiman mirror" he saw in Ueno. He drilled a hole in a small box like a bathtub and used glass beads to project a picture onto it. In the Meiji period, Ryofunetei Sen'yu, Yuki Magosaburo, Tamagawa Bunraku and others performed this, but it gradually disappeared. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Utsushietoraku" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…写し絵も同じ運命をたどった。これは動く幻灯のことであり,すでに享和(1801‐04)のころに,うつしゑ都楽(富士川都楽)が上野で見た〈阿蘭陀(オランダ)エキマン鏡〉を種にしてくふうし,風呂桶のような小箱に穴をあけ,ビードロを用いて絵を写して見せた。明治にも両船亭船遊,結城孫三郎,玉川文楽らがこれを演じたがしだいに消えた。…

※「うつしゑ都楽」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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