Comic and miscellaneous
individual prints
Part II
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Title: Moon, Snow,
and Flowers, Poems of the Four Seasons (月雪花四夲詠) Description: Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Title: Kitchen
Implements’ Pilgrimage to Otake, the Buddha Dainichi (Otake Dainichi Nyorai daidokoro dôgu sankei no zu, 於竹大日如来だい所どうぐさんけいのづ), Description: Kitchen
implements praying to Otake Date: c. 1849-1851 Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Title: A Collection of Lucky “Fu” Things (Uke-ni-iru
fu no ji tsukushi, うけニ入ふの字尽) Description: Date: 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Publisher: Yanagioka I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Text: 梅屋 朝凪の海の面もたひらかに軽くのせ来し浦島の亀 Description: Urashima Taro (a character from
a Japanese folktale) riding a turtle, with a poem by Umenoya Kakuju Date: c. 1837 Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: 心学雅絵説 絵にかきし餅 Description: On top: New Year’s kagami mochi
decorated with bracken, a bitter orange and lobster On bottom: Boy with a Benkei doll Date: 1842-1843 (censor Takano Shin’emon) Size: The sheet is about
14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi (若狭屋版) I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: Funny Nonsense (可樂戯言) Description: Kato Kiyomasa with his katakama
yari playing with tigers and Daikoku and Ebisu wrestling Date: c. 1831-1835 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: Metal Sign People Entering a Period of Luck
February 8th (金性ノ人二月八日うけに入る) Description: Date: 1831 Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: Seeing Three
Dogs Nine Times, Two Dogs Look Like Four Dogs (Tokuyômuki inu no sanwari
(徳用向犬の三わり 三びきの犬九ひきにみへる 二ひきのいぬ四ひきにみゆる) Description: Dogs toppling
the table of a fortuneteller Date: 1848 (censors
Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Taka… NOTE: This print may be a satire of the shogunate’s banning of the
phonically similar divinatory system of Tôkyû-jutsu
in 1848. I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image and information. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
alternate state with red dogs. |
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Title: Description: Elephants
engaged in various activities Date: 3rd
month of 1867 Publisher: Tama-ya
Sôsuke NOTE: This is a
posthumous print since the censors seal reads 3rd month of 1867,
and Kuniyoshi died in 1861. |
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Title: Kaminari (かみ鳴) Description: The god of
thunder and lightning hanging from a cloud dropping a grappling iron Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô NOTE: This is actually a scene from the dance
performance Shiki utsushi tosae
no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) performed at
the Ichimura Theater in the 11th month of 1847. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying the image. |
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Title: Shinôkôshô (士農工商) Description: Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi NOTE: Shinôkôshô was
the hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants in |
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Title: The “Take
Special Care against Fire” Song (Hinoyôin
no uta, 火の用心のうた) Description: Woman about
to light a fire near sleeping children Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke |
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Title: Fortune
Telling for Water Signs Description: Beauty
reading a letter, sitting on a horse that is being led by a boy. Mt. Fuji is in the background. Date: 4th
month of 1858 Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô NOTE: This uke-e
(有卦絵) is a print with various symbols of good luck |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
alternate state without any red in the text or in the wisteria blossoms. |
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Title: Description: Leopard and
rooster Date: 8th
month of 1860 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Title: Onagori oshie no
mazebari, 御名残押繪交張) Description: Leopard and
rooster Date: 8th
month of 1860 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Julius Tüting for locating this image. |
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Title: A Picture of
Various Tools (諸道具寄合噂はなし) Description: Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei |
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Title: A Gathering
of One Hundred Supernatural Tales (Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, 百物語 化ものらうそく) Description: Three ghosts
materializing out of smoke Date: 1843 (censor
Tanaka Heishirô) Size: Unknown Publisher: |
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Title: Loyalty is
Heavy; Life is Light (忠義重命軽) Description: Four of the
47 ronin carrying a heavy kanji for loyalty (忠) and a light kanji
for life (命) Date: c. 1841-1842 Size: Aiban (about 13
by 9 inches or 34.5 by 22.5 centimeters) Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Title: None Description: Ushiwakamaru and Benkei on a banner for the Boy’s Day Festival,
which is also known as Tango and as the Festival of Banners Date: c. 1840-1842 Size: Ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Title: Fashionable
Cat Amusements (Ryûkô neko
jarashi, 流行猫じゃらし) Description: Three cats
with dancing, music, food, and drink Date: c. 1839-1842 Publisher: No seal NOTE: This print is a chûban, a print size about 10 by 7 inches (25
by 18 centimeters). I am grateful to
Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: Ataka Festival Float Song, Head Man of the Naked Festival
(Ataka no kiyari
tôdori hadaka no matsuri,
あたかのきやり 頭取はだかの祭) Description: Head man with
two children Date: 1847-1848
(censors Hama and Kinugasa Publisher: Tôseidô (未詳) NOTE: The tattoo is of Benkei in the nagauta
play Pine of Ataka (Ataka
no matsu), and the print is a mitate of
a scene from the play, in which Benkei (actually the tengu Sôjôbô) meets two children and gives them a fan. A tôdori
was the head of a group responsible for a mikoshi
(portable shrine float), in a festival.
In naked festivals (hadaka), floats
are carried by naked men or men clothed only in fundoshi
(loincloths). I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this image and information. |
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Text: By handprint
oath may the myriad gods of misfortune be respectfully implored to retreat
far away, a supplicatory picture (Mikoto seishi ni tegata oo-sasete
moromoro no Yakugami o tôku tsui doke, tamafu zu, 尊誓紙に手形をおさせてもろ／＼の厄神を遠く追退け 玉ふ図) Description: Group of
demons with one making handprints on a sheet of paper Date: c. 1839-1842 Publisher: Katô-ya Iwazô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Series: Kappa
and Ghosts Competing (Kappa bake kurabe, かっぱ化くらべ) Robinson: Not listed Description: Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by
25 centimeters) Date: 9th
month of 1858 Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image and information. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
alternate state without Kuniyoshi’s signature. |
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