Series of Fashionable Comic Spinning-tops

(Ryûkô dôke koma zukushi, 流行道外こまづくし)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

c. 1843

This series is listed as 195 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The images are each about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters), a size known as chûban. Two images were printed on a sheet of paper about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Diving girl (ama) with the treasure pearl (Komatorihime) The calligrapher Ono-no Tôfû (Koma no Tôfû)
	Gorô Tokimune (Kona mo Gorô Tokimune) Asahina and the flying squirrel (Momon goma)
	Kumagaye (or Kumagai) Naozane challenging 16-year old Mukwan no tayu Atsumori (Komagae Jirô Naozane) Koma no Denzô
	Wild horse (Hanare koma) Bumbuku-chagama (a Japanese folktale usually translated into English as ‘The Magic Teakettle’
	Hauta nayose no komauri The koma turtle from the dragon palace (Ryûgû no kame no koma, 龍宮ノ亀のこま)

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