Comic and miscellaneous individual prints

These prints are not part of series or polyptychs. They are each about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters, a size known as ôban.

	Title: Fashionable Octopus Games (Ryûkô tako no asobi, 流行蛸のあそび) Date: 1840-1842 Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô
	Title: Drunken Otafuku (Sakazuki o uketa otafuku) Date: 1847 Publisher: Horimasa
	Title: Humorous Portrayal of the Six Immortal Poets (Giga rokkasen) Description: The six immortal poets—Ariwara no Narihira, Sôjô Henjô, Kisen Hôshi, Ôtomo no Kuronushi, Bunya no Yasuhide and Ono no Komachi—watching a puppet play Date: Eighth month of 1858 Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô
	Title: Urashima’s Mask Box at the Crossing (Tsuji urashima ataru menbako) Description: Masks resembling the following actors emerging from the Urashima’s box: 1. Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII 2. Nakamura Utaemon IV 3. Bandô Mitsugorô IV 4. Sawamura Sôjûrô V 5. Onoe Kikugorô III 6. Bandô Hikosaburô IV 7. Ôtani Tomoemon III 8. Matsumoto Kôshirô VI 9. Ichimura Uzaemon XII 10. Ichikawa Kuzô II 11. Onoe Tamizô II 12. Seki Sanjûrô III Date: 1848-1850 Publisher: No seal
	Title: The Popular Raccoon Dogs as the Six Immortal Poets (Dôke tanuki no rokkasen) Date: 10^th month of 1846 Publisher: Ise-ya Kisuke
	Title: Dôke ken nan de mo kan de mo Description: conversation among a tiger, a toad and a fox from a parody of ‘Anything Goes’ Date: 3^rd month of 1847 Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) of Horeichô
	This is another state of the above print.
	Title: Shinsaku tsukutsuku ken Description: Ushiwaka Maru and the tengu Date: 9^th month of 1847 Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbe
	Title: Ataru ken kurabe Description: Three male dancers Date: 3^rd month of 1847 Publisher: Nomura-ya Tokubei I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image
	Title: The Tennô Festival in Ôdenma-chô (Ôdenma-chô Tennô matsuri) Description: Date: 1847-1852 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) Image courtesy of Marie de Strycker-Steinmetz
	Title: Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs Date: c. 1825 Publisher: Koshimura-ya Heisuke of Shiba
	Description: Men watching the silhouette of what they think is the divine being Kannon, but is actually a humble bijin sewing Date: 1847-1850 Publisher: No seal
Title: Textile Pattern of People to Stop Your Yawning (Akubi-dome jinbutsu sarasa) Date: 1840-1842 Publisher: Yamamoto Heikichi
Another state of the above print, courtesy of Horst Graebner
Title: Foxes Practicing the Art of Transformation (狐の化のけいこ) Date: 1840s Publisher: ?
Title: The Transfer Ceremony at Ise Shrine (Ise Daijin miya-utsushi, 伊勢太神宮遷御之圖) Date: 1847-52 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

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