Miscellaneous Comic Series,

Part II

 

 

 

Series: 道外天中行事五日めの風  (untranslated)

Number: 2

Robinson: Not listed

Title:

Description:

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date:

Publisher:

 

Series: Japanese Divinities Compared to the Twelve Months (Jû-ni gwatsu wa ko kami)

Robinson: 110

Title:

Description: Kanchono, a warrior archer

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: c. 1840

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei (Sanoki)

 

 

Series: The Storytellers’ Chûshingura

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Act 8 of the Chûshingura with a verse by storyteller Magosaburô

Description:

Format:

Date:

Publisher: No seal

 

 

Series: The Storytellers’ Chûshingura

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Act 9 of the Chûshingura with a verse by storyteller Sanshôtei Karaku

Description:

Format:

Date:

Publisher: No seal

 

Series: Actors as Fish (Uo no kokoro)

Robinson: Not listed

Title:

Description (from the top): flathead (kochi), sting ray (akaei) with face of Onoe Eizaburô (Kikugorô IV), rockfish (mebaru) with face of Sawamura Sôjûrô V, mirror dory (kagamidai) with face of Ichikawa Kuzô II, cuttlefish (ika) with face of Onoe Kikujirô II, gurnard (hôbô) with face of Seki Sanjûrô III and octopus (iidako) with face of Ôtani Hiroemon V

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 1842

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

 

 

Series: Actors as Fish (Uo no kokoro)

Robinson: Not listed

Title:

Description (from the top): two horse mackerels (aji) the lower one with the face of Nakamura Utaemon IV, sea bream (tai) with the face of Arashi Kichisaburô III, flatfish (karei) with the face of Iwai Shijaku (Hanshirô IIV), puffer fish (fugu) with the face of, Onoe Tamizô II, octopus (tako) with the face of Nakayama Bungorō II and crab (kani)

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 1842

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

 

Series: Popular Kites (Ryûkô tako kurabe)

Robinson: Not listed

Title:

Description:

1.  Actor Onoe Kikujirô II as a female Daruma
2.  Octopus with face of actor Nakayama Ichizô
3.  Red kite with face of actor Matsumoto Kôshirô VI
4.  Dragon with face of actor Sakata Sajûrô II
5.  Black kite with face of actor Ichikawa Kuzô II

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 1846-1848

Publisher: Ebiju-ya Yo

Series: Popular Kites (Ryûkô tako kurabe)

Robinson: Not listed

Title:

Description:

1.  Fukusuke doll with face of actor Nakayama Bungorô

2.  Raccoon dog (tanuki) 

3.  Servant (yakko) with face of actor Onoe Tamizô II

4.  Catfish with face of actor Ichikawa Hakoemon

5.  Rabbit with face of actor Sawamura Sôjûrô V

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 1846-1848

Publisher: Ebiju-ya Yo

Series: Illustrated Examples of Mad Sketches (Kyôgwa ye-tehon)

Number: 1

Robinson: 222

Title: None

Description: A half naked man is bitten in the finger by a snapping turtle; two men are running away in hot haste in front of a Buddhist statue of Jizô; four men playing ken; beside a giant rat that is suppressing a weasel with a square object, a half naked man is standing with an opened fan; a man with a furious face is pointing with his finger onto another man eating mochi (rice cakes); and a fisherman is entwined and captured by a giant octopus.

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 5th month of 1859

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Kinnosuke

Series: Illustrated Examples of Mad Sketches (Kyôgwa ye-tehon)

Number: 2

Robinson: 222

Title: None

Description: The persecutors are hanging on a rope from a running horse from which a man is falling down; man with a shouldered gun, running away from a boar, one man who is tossed by the fangs and another man who is carrying an opened umbrella and clinging to the boar; man who is caught by a woman at the scruff of his neck; fleeing man who is caught by a kappa at his loincloth; and man carrying the palanquin at the front wants to pick up a wallet.  Thereby the palanquin is bending side wards and the guest is falling out.

Format: ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date: 5th month of 1859

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Kinnosuke

 

Series: Eight Characteristics of Drinkers (Yômi happai)

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Merry drinker

Description:

Format: Ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date:

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

 

 

Series: Eight Characteristics of Drinkers (Yômi happai)

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Vomiting drinker

Description: Dog eating vomitus

Format: Ôban (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters)

Date:

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

 

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

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