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.
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Title: The
New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara) 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 Description:
People swimming and boating in the Schaap:
19.2 Image courtesy of Richard Illing |
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Title: Surugadai 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) Description:
Men working at ceramic tile kilns at Imado by the Schaap:
19.4 |
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Title: Ômori 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) 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: Teppôzu Description:
Fisherman on the rocks at Teppôzu Schaap:
19.7 |
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Title: Kasumigaseki Description:
Travelers at the top of the slope at Kasumigaseki Schaap:
19.8 |
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Title: 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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