Fan Prints of Humorous
and Miscellaneous Subjects
Part II
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Series: Scenes Along
the Sumida River (隅田川三景) Title: Yamato Date: 4th
month of 1852 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei |
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Series: None Title: None Description: Farmers planting rice Date: c. 1839 Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô NOTE: This image is signed Ichiyûsai
hitsu (一勇斎 筆). I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Hehe Galerie for this image. |
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Series: None Title: None Description: Landscape with Tenjin Shrine (天ぢやしろ), stream and
pond Date: 1843-1846
(censor Yoshimura Gentarô) Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô NOTE: This image is signed Ichiyûsai
hitsu (一勇斎 筆). |
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Series: Famous Sights
in the Title: View of Nihonbashi Date: 1st
month of 1854 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei |
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Description: Fisherman by Moonligh Date: Publisher: |
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Description: Date: 1830-1844 Publisher: Echigo-ya
Chohachi |
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Description: Moon over the
masts of a ship and flowers in the snow representing the trilogy of ‘snow,
moon and flowers’ Date: c. 1839 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei |
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Description: Three sake cups floating in a bowl with a
design of Asakusa temple and Date: c. 1844-1846 Publisher: Echigo-ya Chohachi |
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Description: A lamplighter
with an oil can Date: 1842-1846
(censor Watanabe Shôemon) Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Description: A brown
crayfish underwater Date: c. 1844-1847 Publisher: No seal |
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Description: Turtles Playing
Kickball (Kame no kemari) Date: c. 1841 Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Series: Goldfish that
Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo, 似たか金魚) Description: Turtle and
goldfish with expressions of popular actors.
Note that some of the goldfish have markings resembling actors’
crests. The following actors and one
publisher are represented:
Date: c. 1843 Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Series: Goldfish that
Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo) Description: Turtle and
goldfish with actors’ expressions Date: c. 1843 Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Description: Octopus and black
bear wrestling with a dragonfly officiating
Date: c. 1839 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon (seal name Hanmoto Ue, 板元 上) |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state with the publisher’s seal on a white background. |
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Description: Butterfly and
camellia Date: 1st
month of 1853 Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Description: Sparrows,
this is a keyblock print with hand coloring Date: 1852-1853 Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Description: Fishing boats,
this is a keyblock print with hand coloring Date: Publisher: |
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Title: Fashionable Hozuki (Chinese lantern
plants) Rehearsing (Ryukô hozuki no keiko, 流行ほうづきのけいこ) Description: Chinese
lantern plant petals rehearsing music Date: c. 1840 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Title: Bubbles
Likened to the Heroes of the Suikoden Description: An
entertainer blowing bubbles for children that become characters from the
Suikoden Date: c. 1841 Publisher: |
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Series: Fashionable Gourds of the Floating World (Ryûkô ukiyo hyôtan, 流行うきよひやうたん) Title: Mongaku Pounded by Cold Water (Mongaku hiya uchimasen,
もんがくひやうちません) Description: Mongaku under the waterfall Date: 1843-1846 (censor Muramatsu Genroku)
Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Another state of the above print |
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Description: Gourds,
catfish and a horse dressed as people wrestling Date: c. 1846-1847 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Title: Six Popular Amusing Compositions (Ryûkô rokkisen,
流行六戲撰) Description: Trades people
as parodies of the six immortal poets (rokkasen). In the left lower corner is Mame no Komachi
(まめの小町), a parody of
Ono no Komachi as a bean seller. Date: 1842-1846
(censor Watanabe Shôemon) Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei |
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Series: Popular Faces
of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi) Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following
actors:
Date: c. 1842 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Series: Popular Faces
of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi) Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following
actors:
Date: c. 1842 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Description: A spinning-top
performance by Takezawa Toji (竹澤 藤次) Date: c. 1844 Publisher: Ise-ya Soemon |
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Description: Date: Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Crabs on a
rock Date: 8th
month of 1853 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei NOTE: This marugame
uchiwa shaped print is signed Igusa Kuniyoshi (井草国芳). I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Description: Swimming
goldfish Date: Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei NOTE: This marugame
uchiwa shaped print is signed Igusa Kuniyoshi (井草国芳). I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Description: A plant with
an armor butterfly (yoroi chô, よろひてふ) and a bamboo
gentian butterfly (sasarindo, 笹りんどう) Date: c. 1832 Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô NOTE: This print is signed
Ichiyu hitsu (一勇筆), which can be read as “one brave brush”. The bamboo gentian butterfly has the
Minamoto mon on its wings. I am
grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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“Robinson” refers to series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson,
1961,
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