Fan Prints of Humorous and Miscellaneous Subjects, Part II

 

Series: Scenes Along the Sumida River (隅田川三景)

Title: Yamato

Date: 4th month of 1852

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Series: Famous Sights in the Willow Capital

Title: View of Nihonbashi

Date: 1st month of 1854

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Description: Fisherman by Moonligh

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Date: 1830-1844

Publisher: Echigo-ya  Chohachi

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

Description: Three sake cups floating in a bowl with a design of Asakusa temple and Mt. Fuji

Date: c. 1844-1846

Publisher: Echigo-ya  Chohachi

Description: A lamplighter with an oil can

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Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Description: A brown crayfish underwater

Date: c. 1844-1847

Publisher: No seal

Description: Turtles Playing Kickball (Kame no kemari)

Date: c. 1841

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Series: Goldfish that Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo)

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:



1.  Ichikawa Kuzô II
2.  Ôtani Hiroemon V
3.  Ibaya Senzaburô (publisher)
4.  Nakamura Utaemon IV
5.  Iwai Shijaku (Hanshirô
VII)

Date: c. 1843

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

Series: Goldfish that Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo)

Description: Turtle and goldfish with actors’ expressions

Date: c. 1843

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

Description: Octopus and black bear wrestling with a dragonfly officiating 

Date: c. 1839

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

Description: Butterfly and camellia

Date: 1st month of 1853 

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Description: Sparrows, this is a keyblock print with hand coloring

Date: 1854-1857

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Description: Fishing boats, this is a keyblock print with hand coloring

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Description: Cherry petals rehearsing music

Date: c. 1840

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

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

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Title: Animated Gourds Comics

Description: Mongaku under the waterfall

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Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Another state of the above print

Description: Gourds, catfish and a horse dressed as people wrestling

Date: c. 1846-1847

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Description: Trades people

Date: 1842-1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Series: Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi)

Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following actors:


1. Ôtani Hiroemon V as daitengu (big demon)
2.  Ichkawa Ebizô (Danjûrô VII) as Momotarô
3.  Seki Sanjûrô III as kotengu (small demon)
4.  Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ebisu
5.  Sawamura Sôjûrô V as shôjô (drinker)
6.  Ichimura Uzaemon XII as yasa otoko (elegant man)
7.  Matsumoto Kôshirô VI
as kitsune (fox)

Date: c. 1842

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

Series: Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi)

Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following actors: 


1.  Unknown actor as kijo (female demon)
2.  Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kintarô
3.  Nakamura Bungorô II as gedô (jerk)
4.  Osagawa Tsuneyo IV as okina (old man)
5.  Iwai Shijaku (Hanshirô IIV) as onna (woman)
6.  Ichikawa Ebizô V (Danjûrô VII) as Ryûjin (dragon god)
7.  Onoe Tamizô II as Otafuku

Date: c. 1842

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

“Robinson” refers to series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

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