Famous Views of the Eastern Capital
(Tôto meisho, 東都名所)
Publisher: Kaga-ya Kichibei
c. 1834
This series of ten prints portrays people in landscapes, each print having a green bamboo border. It is listed as number 8 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban.
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Title: The
New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara, 新吉原) Description:
Five men along the Yoshiwara embankment by moonlight Schaap:
19.1 |
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This is a reproduction of
the above print made in the 1930s (Robert O. Muller Collection) |
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Title:
Enjoying the Cool at Ryôgoku (Ryôgoku no suzumi, 両国の凉) Description:
People swimming and boating in the Schaap:
19.2 |
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Another state of the above
print |
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Title:
Rainbow at Surugadai (するがだひ) Description:
A mountain landscape with travelers looking at a rainbow at Surugadai Schaap:
19.3 |
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Title: Imado in Asakusa (Imado Asakusa, 浅草今戸) Description:
Men working at ceramic tile kilns at Imado by the Schaap:
19.4 |
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Title: Ômori (大森) Description:
Two women gathering nori
(seaweed) at Ômori Schaap:
19.5 |
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This is an early twentieth
century reproduction of the above print.
It was published by Hashiguchi Goyo whose
circular seal is the most leftward of the of the group of four seals and
signatures in the right lower corner. |
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Title: A
Picture of Sunrise at Susaki on New Year’s Day (Susaki hatsuhinode zu, 洲崎初日出の図) Description:
A geisha and worshipers (small
figures on the shore) greeting the sunrise at Susaki
on New Year’s Day Schaap:
19.6 |
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Title:
Fishermen at Teppôzu (てつぽふづ) Description:
Fisherman on the rocks at Teppôzu Schaap:
19.7 |
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Title: Kasumigaseki (霞ヶ関) Description:
Travelers at the top of the slope at Kasumigaseki Schaap:
19.8 |
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Title: Yanagi Bridge at Ryôgoku (Yanagibashi Ryôgoku, 両国 柳ばし) Description:
A geisha and her male servant on
the banks of the Schaap: 19.9 |
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Title: Description:
A ferry under Schaap:
19.10 |
“Schaap” refers to listing in Heroes
and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap
(Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998).
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