Comic and Miscellaneous Triptychs and Diptychs, Part
II
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Title: Description:
Date:
1847-1852 Publisher:
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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 |
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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. Publisher:
Koshimura-ya Heisuke |
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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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Title: Description:
Date: Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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Title: Description:
The opening of the new Date: 1855 Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Title: Description:
Scene of the new year Date: Publisher:
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Title: Description:
Date: Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tobei |
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Title: Description:
A group of women cavorting while a beauty (bijin) reads a book (ehon) Date: c.
1850 Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô |
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Title:
Seven Troubles of Women (Shichi kennon musubu ennichi) Description:
Date: Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Title: Description:
Men drinking sake Date: Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Title: Description Date: Publisher:
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Title:
Exhibition of a Glasswork Ship Description:
Date: 1847 Publisher:
Minato-ya Kohei |
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Title: Description:
Date:
1830-1844 Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei |
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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 |
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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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Title: Description:
A group of actors on their way to Oji Shrine (Inari
jinja) on New Year’s day Date: Publisher:
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Title: Description:
Date:
1847-1852 Publisher:
Shimidzu-ya Naojirô |
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Title: Description:
Date:
1847-1852 Publisher:
Yamashiro-ya |
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Title: Description:
The seven gods of good luck Date: 1856 Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Title:
Untitled 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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Title: Description:
A view of hell Date:
1830-1844 Publisher:
Yorozu-ya Magobei |
