Comic and Miscellaneous Triptychs and Diptychs, Part II

 

 

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Date: 1847-1852

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Title: Eight Brides for the Only Son (Hitori musuko ni yome hachinin)

Description: Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII with his female fans

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Title: Miracle of Masterpieces by Ukiyo Matabei (Ukiyo Matabei meiga no kidoku, 浮世又平名画の奇特)

Description: The artist Ukiyo Matabei making paintings that come to life and parade around him.  The paintings resemble the following actors:

1. Ichikawa Kodanji IV: Ukiyo Matabei
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Asao Okuyama: kaminari
3. Arashi Kangorô: geihô
4. Nakamura Kantarô: takajô, falconer
5. Sakata Sajûrô: fukurokuju, god of wisdom & longevity
6. Nakamura Aizô: fuji musume, wisteria girl
7. Ichikawa Hirogorô: zatô, blind
8. Nakayama Bungorô: saru, monkey
9. Arashi Otohachi: oni no nenbutsu
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Nakayama Ichizô: Benkei
Date: 6th month of 1853

Publisher: Koshimura-ya Heisuke

Title: Lucky Casting of Beans Completed at a Fortunate Compass Point (Eho kaho fuku no Iri-mame)

Description: Young nobleman performing the bean-throwing ritual (mamemaki) to drive out bad luck on a day before the first day of spring

Date: c. 1848

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

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Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Title: The Inner Chamber—first koto performance of the new year (Ôoku no hikizome, 御奥の弾初)

Description: Women listening to a blind musician

Date: 1849-1851

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

 

I am grateful to Elaine Boatin for supplying information about this triptych.

Title: New Year Felicitations (Haru no kotobuki, 春の寿)

Description: Beautiful women watching New Year’s dancers

Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Title: Theater Performance for Shogun’s Harem (Oooku shibai) of the kabuki play Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) with Nakamura Kanemon IV as Matsu-o-maru (center) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sakura-maru (right)

Date: 1849-1853

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke

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Description: The opening of the new Ryokoku Bridge

Date: 1855

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

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Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

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Description: A group of women cavorting while a beauty (bijin) reads a book (ehon)

Date: c. 1850

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Title: Seven Troubles of Women (Shichi kennon musubu ennichi)

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Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

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Description: Men drinking sake

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Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

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Title: Exhibition of a Glasswork Ship

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Date: 1847

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

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Date: 1830-1844

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Title: Shiri-tori-ne Nashi Kusagusa

Description: Numerous figures engaged in various activities portraying legends, heroes, and stories

Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

Title: Six Old Men in the Countryside Drinking Tea and Telling Stories (Inaka no rokunin no rojin ga ocha nomi hanashi o shite iru zu)

Description: Complete diptych and drawing for right panel

Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

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Description: A group of actors on their way to Oji Shrine (Inari jinja) on New Year’s day

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Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Shimidzu-ya Naojirô

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Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Yamashiro-ya

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Description: The seven gods of good luck

Date: 1856

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

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Description: Asahina Saburô on the seashore with a group of strange inhabitants of foreign lands

Date: c. 1836

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

 

NOTE: This triptych is listed as T31 in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982).  I am grateful to Ward Pieters for information about this print.

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Description: A view of hell

Date: 1830-1844

Publisher: Yorozu-ya Magobei

  

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