Kameya Kumakichi

Japanese: 亀屋熊吉 - かめやくまきち
Kameya Kumakichi

…In 1644, German Jesuit priest A. Kircher invented the magic lantern, which quickly slid two glass paintings back and forth to project moving images, such as a glutton turning into a pig. In Japan, inspired by a spectacle called the Dutch Ekiman Mirror, which used a magic lantern brought by the Dutch during the Edo period, Koishikawa dyeing and overglaze painting craftsman Kameya Kumakichi, with the help of his friend, doctor Takahashi Genyo, completed his own machine using the same mechanism, and under the name Ikeda Toraku, he performed a seedboard-style magic lantern performance called Utae at a comedy hall in Edo in 1803 (Kyowa 3). This was a performance in which colored pictures painted on glass (seedboards) were placed on several magic lanterns (floors).…

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Japanese:

…1644年,ドイツのイエズス会の神父A.キルヒャーが〈幻灯機〉を発明,セットされた2枚のガラス絵を左右に手早くスライドさせ,大食いの人物がブタに変わるといった〈動き〉のある映像が写し出された。日本では,江戸時代にオランダ人がもたらした幻灯機を使った〈おらんだエキマン鏡〉なる見世物に触発された小石川の染物上絵職人亀屋熊吉が,友人の医者高橋玄洋の助けで,その仕掛けの原理を利用した自前の器械を完成,池田都楽と名のって,1803年(享和3)に江戸で〈写絵〉と称する種板式幻灯を寄席で上演した。これはガラスに彩色絵をかいたもの(種板)を数台の幻灯機(フロ。…

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