Miscellaneous harimaze, Part I
| I am
  grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this section. | 
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 | Series title: Thirty-six
  Comical Faces of Actors off Stage (Dôke sanjûroku gesô, 道外三十六戯相) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Yamahide Date: 4th month of
  1847 
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 | Series title: Thirty-six
  Comical Faces of Actors off Stage (Dôke sanjûroku gesô, 道外三十六戯相) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Yamahide Date: 4th month of
  1847 
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 | Series title: Thirty-six Comical
  Faces of Actors off Stage (Dôke sanjûroku gesô, 道外三十六戯相) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Yamahide Date: 4th month of
  1847 
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 | Series title: None Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Sakai Date: 1849 
 NOTE: Three of the
  images are from Kanadehon Chushingura
  in the 7th month of 1849, but Danjûrô VIII is from Date kurabe
  in the 3rd month of 1849. | ||||||
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 | Series title: None Robinson: Not listed Publisher: No seal Date: 1850-1851
  (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) 
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| 
 Print title: Mirror of
  Drama in Cutouts Drawn by Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi (Harimaze jôruri kagami Ichiyûsai
  Kuniyoshi ga, 交張浄瑠璃鑑 一勇斎 國芳 画) Description: Top left is Higuchi Jirô
  in Hiragana seisuiki, bottom left is Tosa Matabei in Keisei hangonko, the
  second frame from the right, in which a woman is looking down at a dog behind
  her, is titled “Meiboku Sendaihagi”,
  a well-known joruri, and probably depicts the nanny
  Masaoka.  Bottom right is probably
  Asakura Togo in Higashiyama sakura zoshi.   Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi Date: 3rd
  month of 1854 I am grateful to Yasu Takano and Robert Pryor for this
  information.   | |||||||
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 Series: Historic
  Sites at Fifty-three Tôkaidô Stations in Groups of
  Three (Tôkaidô go-jû-san tsui meisho
  koseki san shuku tsuzuki, 東海道五十三次名所古跡三宿續) Robinson: Not listed Top left: Ishiyakushi Station (石薬師 赤人の古蹟), actor
  Nakayama Ichizô as Yamabe Akihito (山部赤人) Top right: Shono Station
  (庄野 名物焼米), yakigome
  (parched rice) from Shono Bottom: Yokkaichi
  Station (四日市 赤堀村 水右衛門), actor
  Ichikawa Ebizô V as Akabori Mizuemon Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô Date: 9th
  month of 1852 NOTE: The image on the top left is signed Yoshinobu (芳信) | |||||||
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 Series: Historic Sites
  at Fifty-three Tôkaidô Stations in Groups of Three (Tôkaidô go-jû-san tsui meisho
  koseki san shuku tsuzuki, 東海道五十三次名所古跡三宿續) Robinson: Not listed Top left: Tsuchiyama
  Station (土山 鈴鹿山の鬼), actor Arashi
  Otohachi  Top right: Minakuchi Station (Benkei sekurabe
  ishi, 水口 弁けいせくらへ石), Benkei
  comparing his height to that of a stone, signed Tori-jo Bottom: Ishibe Station (Sanemori
  Tebarami mura, 石部 実盛 手ばらみ村) Bandô Mitsugorô  Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô Date: 9th
  month of 1852 NOTE: The extra text on
  the image on the right was added by hand. | |||||||
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 Series: Historic
  Sites at Fifty-three Tôkaidô Stations in Groups of Three (Tôkaidô go-jû-san tsui meisho
  koseki san shuku tsuzuki, 東海道五十三次名所古跡三宿續) Robinson: Not listed Top left: Kusatsu
  Station (草津 うばがもち), actors
  Ichikawa Hirogorô and Nakayama Bungorô,
  possibly intended as a parody of Ieyasu and his former nurse Top right: Ôtsu Station (大津 おほつゑ), an Ôtsu-e Bottom: Kyoto Station
  (京 黒主櫻), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Otomo no Kuronushi Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô Date: 9th
  month of 1852 | |||||||
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 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this unsigned
  sketch for another print in the above series. | |||||||
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 | Title: None Left:  Inudzuka Shino on Hôryûkaku roof looking down on Inukai Kempachi
  with geese flying below full moon by Kuniyoshi Right top: Blowfish by
  Hiroshige Right bottom: The Daoist sennin Joriken (Shôriken) crossing the sea on a sword by Kunisada (signed
  Hanabusa Itchô ga) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 9th
  month of 1858 | ||||||
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 | Title: None Left top: The oil thief
  by Kuniyoshi Right top: A lion dancer
  and a drummer smoking by Kunisada Bottom: Mt. Fuji Seen
  Over the Lake in Hakone by Hiroshige Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 9th
  month of 1858  | ||||||
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 | Format: Ôban harimaze print Top: Prince Genji
  with a beautiful woman by Kunisada  Bottom left: A man carrying
  a beggar across a stream finds that the latter is the Buddha in disguise by
  Kuniyoshi Bottom right: An old lady
  serving tea by Hiroshige Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 9th
  month of 1858 Robinson: Not listed Image courtesy of David Hafer | ||||||
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 | Series title: A Collection
  of Comical Warriors (Dôke musha zukushi, 道化武者づくし or 道化武者尽し) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 1839-1842 For higher resolution images and additional information please
  see A Collection of
  Comical Warriors. | ||||||
| 
 | Another state of the above design with less text | ||||||
| 
 | Series title: A Collection
  of Comical Depictions of Plays (Dôke
  kyogen zukushi, 道外狂言づくし or 道外狂言尽し) Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 1839-1842 For higher resolution images and additional information please
  see A
  Collection of Comical Depictions of Plays. | ||||||
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 | Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 3rd
  month of 1841  Actors: Top left: Onoe Kikujirô
  II as nyôbô (wife) Okatsu
  (女房おかる)  Top right: Ichikawa Kuzô as Ukino Tohira (浮名戸平) Bottom: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Nagoya Kosanza (left, 名古屋小山三) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Murasaki Daijin (right, Murasaki daijin jitsuha Monogusamura Tarôsaku, 紫大尽 実ハ物草村太郎作) Play: Monogusa Tarô saku tekuda
  no yadake (物草太郎作手管歌当)       | ||||||
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 | Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 4th
  month of 1841 Actors: Top left: Iwai Tojaku I
  as Sagami Top right: Sawamura Tosshô I as Kumagai
  Naozane (熊谷次郎直実 Bottom: Iwai Shijaku I as the courtesan
  Sugawara, actually Kiku no Mae (けいせい菅原 実ハ菊のまへ, left) and
  Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ubara
  no Tagohei (莵原の田五平, right) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) | ||||||
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 | Robinson: Not listed Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 5th
  month of 1841 Actors: Onoe Tamizô II as kitsune
  (fox) Tadanobu (狐忠信) and Onoe Eizaburô  Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (裏表千本桜) | ||||||
| “Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum,
  London, 1961). 
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