Eight Views of Night Visiting
(Yomairi hakkei)
Publisher: Iba-ya
Senzaburô of Horeichô
c. 1845
The title of this series refers to night visits to Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. Each print combines a picture of a beautiful woman from the waist up with a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine in the background. The women portrayed in these prints are identical to those in the series Women in Tazuna-striped Fashions Visiting Shrines on Festival Days. This series is listed as number 102 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.
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Beauty:
Washing her hands at Benzaiten Shrine in Hitotsume Background:
The Schaap:
10.1 |
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Beauty:
Stroking a statue of Inari, the guardian fox of the Nezu Gongen Shrine in the
city of Background:
The Schaap:
10.2 |
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Beauty: in
prayer holding an umbrella Background:
temple entrance at Kagurazaka Hill Schaap:
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Beauty:
wiping her hands with towel Background:
Schaap:
10.4 |
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Beauty:
holding coins wrapped in paper for an offering Background:
Schaap:
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Beauty:
with a fan and a ring of ground cherries (hozuki) Background:
Schaap:
10.6 |
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Beauty:
drying her back with a towel Background:
Massaki Inari Shrine at Emonzaka on the Schaap:
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Beauty:
holding a small blindfolded doll, a miniature fox (inari) mask and a small box Background:
Emonzaka Hill in moonlight near the Sodezuri Inari Shrine Schaap:
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‘Schaap’ refers to listing in
‘Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi’ by Robert Schaap (Hotei
Publishing, Leiden, 1998).
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