Women

Prints of beautiful women are known as bijin-ga, genre prints are known as fûzoku-ga and prints of warriors—male or female—are known as musha-e.

Series

Date

Robinson*

Modern Fashionable Methods of Training Women in Decorum (Tôryû onna shorei shitsuke kata)

1830

2

A Collection of Flowers―Beautiful Women Compared (Hana awase tosei bijin awase)

c. 1830s

unlisted

Untitled series of busts of beautiful women

1831

unlisted

Famous Products of Mountain and Sea (Sankai meisan zukushi)

c. 1833

193

Modern Tie-dyed Fabrics of Edo (Tôsei Edo kanoko)

1834

134

Select Series of Shells in Elegant Taste (Fûryû mitate kaizukushi)

1834-1835

 

Untitled series of women in the 12 months

1835

76

Series of Poems Set to the Koto (Koto no kumiuta zukushi)

c. 1840

97

“Brother Pictures” for the 24 Paragons of Filial Piety (E-kyôdai uchibiki nijûshi-kô)

1840

122

Instruction for Children in the Accomplishments (Yodô shogei kyôsô)

c. 1840

124

Index of Favorite Actors Showing Off (Yakusha kidori hi-iki-biiki)

c. 1840

175

Untitled series of beauties compared to the Five Elements (gogyô)

c. 1840

unlisted

Stories of Wise Women and Faithful Wives (Kenjo reppuden)

1841-1842

21

Virtuous Women for the Eight Views (Kenjo hakkei)

1842-1843

20

100 Stories of Famous Women of Our Country (Kokon honchô meijo hyaku den)

1843

18

Mirror of Eternal Feminine Virtue (Teiso chiyo no kagami)

1843

61

Illustrations of Moral Conduct Compared with the Chapters of Genji (Nazorae Genji kyôkun zue)

1843

80

Mirror of Women of Wisdom and Courage (Kenyû fujo kagami)

1843

92

Comparison of Women’s Forms with the New River (Onna imagawa sugata awase)

1843

95

Moral Teaching for Young Girls Mirrored in the 36 Poets (Sanjûrokkasen dôjo kyôkun kagami)

1843

98

Instructive Reference-Index of All Sorts of Proverbs (Tatoe-gusa oshie hayabiki)

1843

100

Selected Insects (Mushi erami)

c. 1843

113

Fashionable Series of Important Characters (Furyû nagashira jizukushi)

c. 1843

127

Mirror of Women’s Tasks (Fujin tewaza kagami)

1843

141

Ten Wise Women’s Fans (Jikken onna ôgi)

1843

220

The Four Seasons (Shiki no uchi)

1843

unlisted

Untitled series of beauties reflected in mirrors (fan prints)

1843-1845

unlisted

Seven Benten Shrines of Good Fortune (fan prints) (Tôto shichifuku Benten)

1843-1846

unlisted

Various Specialties of Edo Districts (Edo jiman meibutsu kurabe)

1843-1846

unlisted

Series of Women as Benkei (Shuzoroi onna Benkei)

1844

137

Set of Delicate Ladies of Our Country (Honchô taoyame soroi no uchi)

1845

39

Eight Views of Night Visiting (Yomairi hakkei)

1845

102

Sixteen Wonderful Considerations of Profit (Myôdensu jûroku rikan)

1845

103

Waterfall-striped Materials in Answer to Earnest Prayer (Daigwan jôju ari-ga-taki-jima)

1845

111

Series of Modern Chrysanthemum Varieties (Imayô kiku-zoroi)

1845

128

Eight Selected Flowers from the Garden (fan prints) (Enchû hassen ka)

1845

219

Battledores in Patchwork Relief (Oshive hago-ita)

1845

unlisted

Women in Tazuna-striped Fashions Visiting Shrines on Festival Days (Tazunazome uma no ennichi)

1845

unlisted

Forty-eight Habits of the Floating World (Ukiyo shi-ju-hachi kuse)

1846

143

Sixteen Female Sennin, Charming Creatures (Enshi jû-roku josen)

c. 1847

58

Women Compared with the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Shichifukujin)

1847-1848

163

Untitled set of the six Crystal Rivers (triptychs)

1847-1848

unlisted

Eight Assemblies of the Floating Night (fan prints) (Ukiyo hakkwai)

1847-1850

50

Falsehood and Truth Both Sides of the Heart (Uso to ma go kokoro no ura-omote)

1848

106

Modern Checkered Materials for Night-cooling among the Flowers (Tôji ichimatsu hana no yo-suzumi)

c. 1848

112

Incidents of Everyday Life for the Eight Views and the Eight Trigrams (Ningen banji a-fu-mi hakkei)

1849

108

Ôtsu Pictures for the Eight Views (fan prints) (Ôtsu-e hakkei)

1849-1851

212

The Pride of Edo: Going Into Modern Service  (Edo jiman tôsei ji-ire)

1850

107

Celebrated Products of Mountains and Seas (Sankai medetai zue)

1851

117

A Selection of 6 Modern Summer Scenes (fan prints) (Imayô rokkasen)

1853

unlisted

Select Chûshingura (Mitate Chûshingura)

c. 1854

54

The Seven Komachi (Nana Komachi)

1855

126

Kakemono-e (vertical diptychs) of beautiful women

 

 

Genji triptychs

 

139 and 147

Miscellaneous series of beautiful women

Print from series 89 (Modern Five Qualities) added 1/2/12

 

1, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 96, 104, 133, 144, 154, 158 and 160

Triptychs of beautiful women 2 images added 1/24/12 (at end)

 

130, 157 and 166

Miscellaneous fan prints of women

 

41, 99 and 213

Surimono of women

 

148

*Series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

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