Famous Views of the Eastern Capital

(Tôto meisho)

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.

Title: The New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara)

Description: Five men along the Yoshiwara embankment by moonlight

Schaap: 19.1

This is a reproduction of the above print made in the 1930s (Robert O. Muller Collection)

Title: Enjoying the Cool at Ryôgoku

Description: People swimming and boating in the Sumida River with fireworks in the evening sky

Schaap: 19.2

 

Image courtesy of Richard Illing

Title: Surugadai

Description: A mountain landscape with travelers looking at a rainbow at Surugadai

Schaap: 19.3

Title: Imado in Asakusa (Imado Asakusa)

Description: Men working at ceramic tile kilns at Imado by the Sumida River

Schaap: 19.4

Title: Ômori

Description: Two women gathering nori (seaweed) at Ômori

Schaap: 19.5

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.

Title: A Picture of Sunrise at Susaki on New Year’s Day (Susaki hatsuhinode zu)

Description: A geisha and worshipers (small figures on the shore) greeting the sunrise at Susaki on New Year's Day

Schaap: 19.6

Title: Teppôzu

Description: Fisherman on the rocks at Teppôzu

Schaap: 19.7

Title: Kasumigaseki

Description: Travelers at the top of the slope at Kasumigaseki

Schaap: 19.8

Title: Yanagi Bridge at Ryôgoku (Yanagibashi Ryôgoku)

Description: A geisha and her male servant on the banks of the Sumida River near Yanagi Bridge

Schaap: 19.9

Title: Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima)

Description: A ferry under Etai Bridge with the island of Tsukuda in background

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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