Mirror of Drama in Cutouts

(Mazehari jôruri kagami, 交張浄瑠璃鑑)

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

1854

This series of prints by Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this series.

	Description: Top right is Yuranosuke in Act IV of Kanadehon chûshingura, Miyagino and Shinobu in Shiraishi banashi (しらいしはなし), Mitsuhide in Act X of Ehon Taikoki (太功記十段目), the monkey in Sarumawashi Kadode no Hitofushi (Horikawa, 堀川), and Shunkan (女護島) Date: 2^nd month of 1854
	Description: The bird omen in a Kagamiyama play (鏡山), The ferryman Tonbei in Yaguchi no Watashi (矢口ノ渡し), Minosaku the gardener in Honchô nijûshikô (本朝廿四), Jubei and Heisaku in Numazu (沼津), Yaegaki and fox magic (狐火) on Honchô nijûshikô Date: 2^nd month of 1854
	An alternate state of the above design
	This print, and the two following prints, are by Hiroshige. The series title is written as 交張浄留理鑑 on Hiroshige’s prints. Date: 3^nd month of 1854
	Date: 3^nd month of 1854
	Date: 3^nd month of 1854

“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

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