Fan Prints of Humorous and Miscellaneous Subjects, Part III

 

 

Description: Frogs Reenacting the Battle of  Yashimaura (Yashimaura kaerugassen)

Date: c. 1839

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Title: Funny Frogs of Various Kinds

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Publisher: Ise-ya Soemon

Title: Dyeing Fabrics in Different Colors (Sometsuku iro tsukushi)

Date: c. 1835

Publisher:

Title: Artistic Performances of Daruma-monks (Tôsei Daruma no gei zukushi)

Description: Five variations of Daruma: two squabbling women, two jugglers, and the actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as the aged Daruma, whose nose was so long that a thread, wound around his nose and one ear, would actually hold

Date: c. 1842

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Series: Toys with Actor’s Expressions (Sono omokage teasobi zukushi)

Description: A lion’s mask, a Daruma doll, a female doll with bare shoulders, an owl and a male doll playing with a piece of paper (fukigami)

Date: 1842

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Series: Toys with Actor’s Expressions (Sono omokage teasobi zukushi)

Description: Two toys performing a lion dance, a servant carrying a straw basket, a rabbit pounding mochi, a toy rabbit on wheels and a man roasting an eel

Date: 1842

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Series: Toys with Actor’s Expressions (Sono omokage teasobi zukushi)

Description: In the upper row: Otafuku, a fox playing the samisen and a Tenjiku Tokube toy; in the lower row: a dog, a fox statue and a doll making fried tofu (dengaku)

Date: 1842

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Description: Urashima Tarô leading Otohime, who is riding on an octopus

Date:

Publisher: Echigo-ya  Chohachi

 

NOTE: Otohime is the daughter of Ryujin, dragon-god of the sea

Description: Women and children enjoying shadow pictures

Date: c. 1832-1844

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Description: A cats’ tea party

Date: c. 1845

Publisher:

Title: Takezawa’s Popular Comic Spinning Tops (Takezawa ryûkô dôke koma zoroi)

Description: A straw hat seller (kasaya), a mochi maker (tsukiya), a Shintô priest (kannushi), a wife (kamisan), a lady’s maid (gejo) and a water seller (mizuya) with heads depicted as tops (koma)

Date: 1844

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Title: The Competition of Longevity (Arittakezawa jumyô kurabe)

Description: From left to right: Kikujidô (the Chrysanthemum Boy), Tôbôsaku, Urashima Tarô and Miura Ôsuke are watching the famous top spinner (kyoku goma) Takezawa Tôji

Date: 1844

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyube

Title: Collection of Things with Names that End with “Men”

Description:

Date: c. 1830-44

Publisher: Ise-ya Soemon

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

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