Kunichika publishers vs carvers

This is just a quick analysis of my own Kunichika collection – listing all collaborations between publisher & carver, where they have both been mentioned on the print. This of course excludes a lot of images where one of the other is unreadable or absent. I think it shows nicely that publishers seemed to have their preferred carvers, rather than the artist having much say. Very popular carvers were never used by some publishers who instead were giving work at the same time to other carver. Perhaps a publisher would have to build up a relationship with a carver and guarantee them enough work at the right time?

Things I’d like to know:

Carvers were clearly very busy so did they decide which publishers they worked for – or did the publisher hold the power over which carvers they used?
Were carvers genuinely a single person or was there a master and students who worked under him?

Pub/Carv

Hori Take
彫多キ

Hori Tashichi
彫多七

Hori Ei =Eizō
彫栄

Hori Sen’n
osuke
彫千之助

Hori Cho
彫長

Hori Ushi 彫牛

Hori Uta
彫卯多

Yowai matsuホリ齢松

Hori Gin
彫銀 Asai Ginjirō

Horikō Hide
katsu 彫工秀勝

Hori Hei
彫平

Hori Yata 彫弥太

Hori Ryū
彫竜?

Hori Tatsu
彫タツ

Hori Yū 彫勇

Hori Sho
彫庄

Hori Oka 彫岡

Hori Toku
ホリ徳

Hori Kozo
彫小三

Kogaya Katsugorō

1:1862-69

Hiranoya Shinzo
平野屋新蔵

1:1864

Mori-ya Jihei

1:1865

Hayashi 林
=Iseya Rihē
伊勢屋利兵衛

1:1865

1:1875

Ebiya Rinnosuke

2:1867

Iseya Kanekichi
吉伊勢兼

1:1866

1:1870

Masudaya Ginjirō
増田屋銀次郎

1:1867, 1:1872

Tsunoi =Tsunokuniya Isaburo
津伊

1:1868, 1:1869

Tsujiokaya Kamekichi
=Tsunashima Kamekichi
辻亀抜
綱島亀吉

1:1871, 2:1872, 1:1873

1:1870

1:1869

Kisaku? Kiya Sakutarō

1:1869

Umamichi, Sugisei

1:1869

Kiya Sōjirō

1:1867

Morimoto Junzaburō
森本順三郎

2:1873

1:1870

1:1876

Masadaya Heikichi
土橋政田屋版

1:1870, 1:1872, 1:1875

Daikokuya Heikichi

1:1875

Tsujiokaya Bunsuke
辻岡屋文助

1:1871, 1:1872, 1:1874

Yamamoto Kyūbei =Yamamotoya Heikichi

1:1871

1:1872

Tsutaya Kichizō

1 1871

Yorozuya Magobē
万屋孫兵衛

1:1873, 3:1874, 1:1875

1:1872, 2:1873

1:1874, 1:1875, 1:1883

1:1873

Maruya Jimpachi

1:1872

Nodaya Tahē 野田屋太兵衛

1:1873

Daikokuyo Kinzaburō
=Yamamura Kinzaburō
山村金三郎

1:1877, 1:1879

Arai Kisaburō
=Iseya Kisaburō
荒井喜三郎

2:1882

Maruya Tetsujirō
丸屋鉄治郎
=Kobayashi Tetsujirō
小林鉄次郎

1:1879

1:1874(78?)

Sawamuraya Seikichi
沢村屋清吉

1:1874, 1:1876, 1:1879, 1:1881, 1:1882

Ōtaya Takichi?
太田屋多吉

1:1875

Ibaya Senzaburō (Dansendō)
亥九ヵ

1:1875

1:1883

Matsumura Kurayoshi
松村倉吉

1:1875

Asano Eizō
浅野栄蔵

1:1876

Ueki Rin’nosuke
植木林之助板

1:1876

1:1883

Ishii Rokunosuke
石井六之助

1:1891

Fukuda Kumajirō
福田熊次郎

2:1893

3:1878, 3:1879, 2:1885, 2:1890, 1:1892, 3:1895

2:1892

Fukuda Hatsujirō
福田初次郎

3rd gen 1:1899

1:1899

Kurata Tasuke
倉田太助

1:1878

Matsushita Heibē
松下平兵エ

1:1879

Tsutaya Kichizō
蔦屋吉蔵

Kamiyama Seishichi

2:1883

Yamamura Kōjirō
山村鑛治郎

1:1883

Shohei Komiyama
小宮山昇平

Yoshida Kiyomatsu
吉田喜代松

1:1889

1:1883

Inoue Mohei
井上茂兵衛

Masataro Miyazawa
宮沢政太朗

Kashima Matsujirō
鹿島松次郎

1:1884

Kojima Hokichi
小島鎬吉

1:1884

Takeda Heiji
武田平治

1:1884

Izawa Kikutarō
井沢菊太郎

1:1877

Morimoto Junzaburō
森本順三郎

1:1884

Miura Takeaki
三浦武明

1:1885

Naraha Shūbē
楢葉周平

1:1885

Takazawa Fusajiro
高沢房次郎

1:1886

Hirano Eitarō
平野栄太郎

1:1886

Miyake Hanshirō
三宅　半四郎

2:1887

Sawa Hisajirō
澤久次郎

1:1887

Kodama Matashichi
児玉又七

1:1887

Asano Kinnosuke
浅野金之助

Maki Kin’nosuke
牧　金之助

1:1896

Shimizu Bunzō
清水文蔵

1:1888

Komori Sōjirō =Kiya Sōjirō
小森宗治郎

1:1888, 1:1889. 1:1890

Yokoyama Ryōhachi
横山良八

1:1888

Sasaki Toyokichi
佐々木豊吉

1:1890

Akiyama Buemon
秋山武右衛門

Kunichika publishers vs carvers

Published by ChrisR

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