Alphabetical List of Kuniyoshi’s Print Series, M - S
Japanese Name	English Name	Description	Date	Robinson 1961*	Robinson 1982‡
Matsu zukushi	A set of pine trees	Fan prints of women	1849-1853
Meicha zukushi	A series of famous teas	Fan prints of women	1847-1850
Meikô hyaku yû den	Stories of a hundred heroes of high renown	Heroes	c. 1842	29	S31
Meishô shi-ten kagami	Mirror of the quartets of retainers of famous generals	Warriors in groups of five	1863		S94
Meishu zoroi	Famous brands of sake	Fan prints of women	c. 1846
Meitô eiyû soroi	Set of famous leading heroes	Heroic scenes	1856	71	S89
Meiyo Sanjûrokkassen	Thirty-six famous battles	Historical scenes	c. 1850	51	S61
Miburi ju-ni omoi gwatsu	Imitations of the twelve months	Actors caricatured as the months	1847-48	211
Mitate Chôshingura	Select Chûshingura	Women	c. 1848	54
Mitate Chûshingura	Select Chûshingura	Unnamed pairs of actors	c. 1835
Mitate gedai zukushi	Select series of book-titles	Theatrical (diptychs and triptychs)	1847-48	159
Mitate go gyô	Select five elements	Prince Genji with beauties (triptychs)	1852	139
Mitate hakkei	Selection for the eight views	Historical scenes (triptychs)	c. 1846	44	S39
Mitate hyaku-nin-sô	A hundred select physiognomies	Heads of actors, six to a sheet	1847	200
Mitate jûnishi	Fair defenses for the twelve signs	Dramatic characters	c. 1845	150
Mitate jûnishi	Selection for the twelve signs	Heroes	c. 1845		S38
Mitate jûnishi no uchi	Selection for the twelve signs	Large actors’ heads	c. 1852	192
Mitate Nashitsubo nana kasen no uchi	Selection for the seven immortal poets of the pear chamber	Women	c. 1849-53
Mitate ni-jû-shi kô	Selected twenty-four paragons of filial piety	Theatrical	1854-55	170
Mitate saiku yakusha hakkei	Selected fine performances of actors for the eight views	Actors	c. 1834	167
Mitate sambasô	Select theatrical dancers	Women’s heads (fan prints)	1855	41
Mitate shichifukujin	Analogies of the seven lucky gods	Fan prints of women
Mitate yakusha Hakkenshi	Selected actors as the eight heroes of Bakin’s ‘Hakkenden’	Theatrical (diptychs)	c.1840	156
Monchô jôruri kagami	Mirror and compendium of musical plays	Sketches representing musical plays	1854	207
Morokoshi nijûshi-kô	The twenty-four Chinese paragons of filial piety	Chinese stories (chûban)	1847	14	S60
Morokoshi nijûshi-kô	Twenty-four Chinese paragons of filial piety	Chinese stories (ôban)	1853	13	S79
Musha zukushi hanjimono	A collection of warrior rebuses	Ôban picture puzzles	1849-1851
Mushi erami	Selected insects	Women (insects inset)	c. 1843	113
Myôdensu jû-roku rikan	Sixteen wonderful considerations of profit	Women	c. 1845	103
Myôna isô kyôchû go-jû-san tsura	Curiously named odd faces denoting the fifty-three stations	Comic heads (six to an ôban sheet)	1847-48	216
Nagashira eiyû soroi	Set of famous leading heroes	Heroic scenes	1856	71	S89
Nana Komachi	The seven Komachi	Women	1855	126
Nanatsu iroha Tôto Fuji zukushi	Set of views of Fuji from Edo in iroha order	Theatrical (large heads)	1852	181
Natsu kechiki chuya dokei	Summer scenes: The hours of day and night	Fan prints of women	c. 1843-44
Natsu no yûgure	Summer evenings	Fan prints of women	1853
Nazorae Genji kyôkun zue	Illustrations of moral conduct compared with the chapters of ‘Genji’	Women	c. 1843	80
Nazorae Suikoden	An imitation of the Suikoden	Explicit sexual pictures (shunga koban)	c. 1830
Neko no ateji	Cat homophones	Names of fish in kana formed of cats	c. 1842	196
Neko no hyaku men-sô	A hundred cats’ physiognomies	Actors caricatured as cats (fan prints)	c. 1840	201
Nigiwai zoroi	An assortment of bustling crowds	Fan prints of women	1855
Nihon kômei eiyû den	Stories of famous heroes of japan	Warrior prints	1852
Nijûshi-kô dôji kagami	Mirror of the twenty-four paragons of filial piety	Chinese stories	c. 1840	12	S13
Ningen banji a-fu-mi hakkei	Incidents of everyday life for the eight views and the eight trigrams	Women	c. 1849	108
Nita ka kingyo	Goldfish that resemble them	Fan prints of turtles and goldfish with actors’ expressions	c. 1843
Nitakaragura kabe no mudagaki	Scribblings on a store-house wall	Theatrical caricatures	1847	179
Ogura nazorae hyaku-nin isshû	Ogura imitation of the hundred poets	Historical and dramatic	c. 1845-47	40	S46
Oguri jû-yûshi no ichi-nin	The ten brave retainers of Oguri (Hangwan)	Heroes (chûban)	c. 1843	30	S26
Omou ni kanai Fukusuke	Fukusuke fitted to one’s thoughts	Comic horizontal chûban	1843-1846	177
Onna Imagawa sugata awase	Comparison of women’s forms with the New River	Women	c. 1843	95
Osana asobi go sekku no uchi	Children’s games for the five festivals	Children	c. 1840	129
Osana asobi hachi gyô no uchi	Children’s games for the eight dispositions (filial piety)	Children	c. 1840	132
Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi	Snow, moon and flowers in children’s games	Children	c. 1840	81
Osana dachi isaoshi kagami	Young models of great achievement	Children	1843-1846
Oshive hago-ita	Battledores in patchwork relief	Heroic women & children (chûtanzakuban)	c. 1845		S35a
Ôtsu-e hakkei	Ôtsu pictures for the eight views	Women’s heads (fan prints)	1849-51	212
Reppuden	Stories of chaste women	Fan prints of women	1844		S95e
Retsu mô den	Stories of strength, in order	Heroes (chûban)	1845 & 1855	26	S48
Rokuyôsei Kuniyoshi jiman	Kuniyoshi’s analogies for the six conditions of nature	Legendary characters	1860		S93
Ryûkô dôke koma zukushi	Series of fashionable comic spinning-tops	Comic figures formed of tops (chûban)	c. 1843	195
Ryûkô dôke koma-zoroi	Series of fashionable comic spinning-tops	Comic figures formed of tops	c. 1843	140
Ryûkô kurabe oshie tebako	Fashionable comparisons of raised pictures on toilet-boxes	Theatrical (large heads)	1847	168
Ryûkô menzukushi	Popular faces of the present day	Fan prints with masks resembling actors	c. 1842
Ryûkô neko no tawamure	Fashionable cat frolics	Actors in current plays represented as cats	1847	197
Ryûkô okonomi no sakazuki	Fashionable sake cups	Actors painted inside sake cups	c. 1851
Ryûkô o-somemono chô	Fashionable register of dyed-stuffs	Women	c. 1834	90
Ryûkô tako kurabe	Popular kites	Actors faces on kites	1846-1847
Ryûkô tako no asobi	Fashionable octopus games	Comic octopus prints	c. 1840-1842
Sakurazoroi	Cherries	Large heads of women (fan prints)	1855
Sambijin mitate shochikubai	Three selected beauties for pine, bamboo and plum	Women	c. 1843	131
Sanbantsuzuki	A set of three	Shikishiban surimono	c. 1832
Sangoku yôko zue	The magic fox of the three countries, illustrated	Fantastic scenes	c. 1849-50	48	S66
Sanjûrokkasen dôjo kyôkun kagami	Moral teaching for young girls mirrored in the thirty-six poets	Women	1842	98
Sanka shokushi no zu	Weavers’ children in the silk-worm house	Children	c. 1840	116
Sankai medetai zue	Excellences of mountain and sea illustrated	Women’s busts with inset industries	1852	117
Sankai meisan zukushi	Famous products of mountain and sea	Figures against landscape backgrounds	c. 1833	193
Sankyoku ukare no ôgoma	Three highlights of great spinning top performances	Spinning tops	c. 1848-1851
Sansen zue	The three rivers illustrated	Women’s heads (fan-prints)		99
Satomi Hakkenden	The eight heroes of Bakin’s ‘Hakkenden’	Theatrical	1852	173
Satomi Hakkenden	History of the eight dogs of Satomi	Eight dog warriors	c. 1850-52	47	S66a
Sayetate no uchi kitai no wazamono	Skillfully tempered sharp blades	Dramatic characters and their swords	1847-8	60	S51
Seichû gishi den	Stories of the true loyalty of the faithful samurai	Heroes	1847-1848	72	S54
Seichû gishi hottan	Origin of the true loyalty of the faithful samurai	Heroes	1848	72	S55
Seichû gishi shôzô	Portraits of the faithful samurai of true loyalty	The forty-seven rônin	1853	79	S78
Seichû gishin den	Stories of faithful hearts and true loyalty	Heroes’ women	1848	72	S56
Seichû gishin kagami	Mirror of the true loyalty of the faithful retainers	The forty-seven rônin	c. 1851		S71
Seichû gishin meimei kagami	Mirror of the true loyalty of the faithful retainers, individually	The forty-seven rônin	1857	77	S90
Seirô bijin kurabe	Comparison of beauties of the green houses	Women (courtesans)	c. 1837	120
Seirô bijin zoroe	Series of beautiful women of the green houses	Women (courtesans)	c. 1833-1838
Seisuiki jimpin sen	Characters in the ‘[Gempei] Seisuiki’	Heroes of the Taira-Minamoto wars	1840	16
Seisuiki jimpin sen	Documented characters from the chronicle of the ups and downs of the Minamoto and Taira clans	Historical scenes (chûban)	c. 1840		S15
Sekijô gishi den	Stories of the faithful samurai of the red castle	The forty-seven rônin	1848	83	S58
Setsugekkwa no uchi	Snow, moon and flowers	Women’s heads (fan prints)	1849-51	213
Setsugekkwa no uchi	Snow, moon, and flowers	Actors in character	1853	223
Setsugekkwa no uchi	Snow, moon, and flowers	Women (triptychs)	c. 1848	121
Shichi Fu-ku-jin	Women for the seven gods of good luck	Women with gods inset	c. 1847-48	163
Shijûshichi mokuzô	Forty-seven wooden statues	Statues of the 47 rônin (chûban)	1846-1848
Shi-ka-yô uta awase	Comparison of poems	Women	c. 1841	94 & 149
Shiki no kokoro onna asobi	Feminine pleasures of the four seasons	Women (chûban triptychs)	1844-1847
Shiki no uchi	The four seasons	Women (triptychs)	c. 1850	130
Shiki yûkan	Pleasures of the four seasons	Women (triptychs)	1843-1847
Shingaku osana etoki	Moral philosophy illustrated for children	Comic (chûtanzakuban)	c. 1842	115
Shingaku osana etoki	Moral philosophy illustrated for children	Comic (chûban)
Shinpan kodomo asobi no uchi	Newly published childrenʼs games	Children	c. 1836
Shinramanzo	The universe of women	Fan prints of women	1843-1845
Shin-yû kurabe	Comparisons of true courage	Heroes (nagaban)	1845 &1855		S49
Shokoku meisho zusho	Series of famous views in the provinces illustrated	Women	c. 1830	1
Shôtoku Taishi go-ichidaiki	Biography of Prince Shôtoku		c. 1840		S14
Shunga hakkei	Eight views of lovemaking	Sexually explicit pictures (shunga koban)
Shûeki hakke e	Universal divination by the eight trigrams, illustrated	Divinities	c. 1837-8		S11
Shuzoroi onna Benkei	Series of women as Benkei	Women (half-length)	1844	137
Soga monogatari no uchi	The story of the Soga brothers	Theatrical	1854	205
Sono omokage teasobi zukushi	Toys with actor’s expressions	Fan prints of toys with actor’s faces	1842
Sugata hana bijin kagami	Beauties mirrored in the forms of flowers	Women	c. 1840	96
Suikoden gôketsu hyaku-hachi-nin	The hundred and eight heroes of the Suikoden	Chinese heroes in groups of nine (ôban)	c. 1830	4	S3
Suikoden gôketsu hyaku-hachi-nin no hitori	The hundred and eight heroes of the Suikoden, one by one	Chinese heroes in groups of nine (chûban)	c. 1830		S2a
Suikoden gôketsu hyaku-hachi-nin tenkôsei sanjûroku-in yonmai uchi	Thirty-six heavenly stars of the 108 heroes of the Suikoden in four sheets	Nine Suikoden heroes per sheet	1830
Sumidagawa shichi Fuku-jin no uchi	The seven gods of good luck on the Sumida River	Actors with insets by Kuniyoshi’s students	1853	203
Sumi-ire hyaku-nin isshu	The hundred poets of the inkstand	Poets (koban)	c. 1843		S27

* “Robinson 1961” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

‡ “Robinson 1982” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement.

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