Goldfish

(Kingyo tsukushi)

Publisher: Murata-ya Jirôbei

1839-1842

 

This series is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The images are each about 10 by 7 inches (25 by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban.  Two images were printed on a sheet of paper about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

 

Title: One Hundred Horrible Stories

 

Title: Black Kite's (a small hawk) Sudden Attack

 

Title: Blowing Soap Bubbles (Tamaya tamaya)

 

Title: A Drinking Bout

 

Title: Matoi (firemen's symbolic pole)

 

Title: Raft Riders

 

Title: Sosanô-no Mikoto (Shinto god of the sea and storms)

 

Title: Sudden Rain of Water-striders

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