Kuniyoshi’s paintings
Part I
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More
than 60 signed paintings by Kuniyoshi have been documented. Also on this website are the ten extant ink
and color paintings for the series The
108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden. |
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Description: Courtesan
with full moon and bat Schaap: 1.1 Location: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description: Bust
portraits of beauty smoking a pipe and beauty holding a bolt of cloth Schaap: 1.2 |
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Description: Standing
prostitute reading a letter, hearing the call of the cuckoo Schaap: 1.7 |
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Description: Beauty
standing in a breeze, holding a letter Schaap: 1.8 |
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Description: Two Kamuro waiting
for a courtesan Schaap: 1.10 |
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Description: Beauty in
summer kimono seated at a round window Schaap: 1.11 |
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Description: Schaap: 1.12 |
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Description: A lady’s maid
with wide hairstyle, kimono with long, hanging sleeves and belt tied high at
back, carrying flowering pink morning glory in large porcelain planter out in
front of her Schaap: 1.13 Date: c. 1848-1854 Location: The |
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Description: Lady-in-waiting
at Edo Castle watching a theatrical performance Size: 35 7/8 x 11 1/2 in (91.2 x 29.2 cm) Schaap: 1.17 Date: c. 1854-1860 Location: Metropolitan
Museum of Art I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Woman in
dishabille hurrying forward Schaap: 1.18 Date: c. 1845-1847 |
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Description: A young
beauty reading a letter Schaap: 1.20 Date: c. 1848-1854 |
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Description: Woman and
child beside an open verandah in summer Schaap: 1.22 Date: c. 1836 |
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Description: Partially
disrobed woman at a bathhouse Schaap: 1.25 Date: 1844-1854 Location: Ôta Memorial Ukiyo-e Museum |
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Description: Woman seated
under a cherry blossoms Schaap: 1.26 |
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Description: Young woman
wearing a kimono with long hanging
sleeves Schaap: 1.27 Date: c. 1848-1850 Location: Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genova |
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Description: Two beauties
seated beneath cherry blossoms in the moonlight Schaap: 1.28 Location: Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description: Courtesan
wearing a robe with Ôtsu pictures Schaap: 1.29 Date: c. 1848-1854 Location: Takashima
Masao Collection, |
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Description: Standing
courtesan wearing two hair combs Schaap: 1.31 Date: c. 1848-1850 Location: Kumamoto
Prefectural |
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Description: The courtesan
Jigoku Reigan of Takasu who was adopted and patronized by the priest Ikkyu Size: 145 x 82 cm Schaap: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Description: Standing
courtesan Schaap: |
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Description: Standing shirabyôshi
dancer Schaap: Date: c. 1849-1853 |
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Description: Standing
beauty in blue and white kimono Schaap: Date: c. 1845-1847 |
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Description: The Chinese
hero Kyumonryô Shishin
sitting under a tree at night Schaap: Date: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Description: Unidentified
female warrior Schaap: Date: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Paintings under flaps:
Description: Procession of floats at the Sannô Festival
in Surugachô Size: 54.5 x 361.5 cm Location: Tokyo Museum I am grateful
to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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“Schaap” refers to
listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese
Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei
Publishing, Leiden, 1998)
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