Kuniyoshi’s Analogies for the Six Conditions of Nature
(Rokuyôsei Kuniyoshi jiman, 六様性国芳自慢)
Publisher: Uo-ya Eikichi
Printed 1860 from designs of c. 1835
This
series pairs mythical and historic people with auspicious and inauspicious days
in Japanese astrology. The prints in
this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known
as ôban.
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Day: Butsumetsu (佛滅, a
most unlucky day) Character:
Hori Ran Maru spearing Yasuda Sakubei Robinson:
S93.1 |
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Day:
Senshô (先勝, a
day for official business) Character:
Inagawa Yoshimoto in his last fight at Okehazama Robinson:
S93.2 |
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Day: Taian (大安, a
good day for traveling ) Character:
Kaidômaru (Kintarô) by a
waterfall Robinson:
S93.3 I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Day: Sembû (先負, not
a very lucky day) Character:
Mongaku Shônin doing
penance under waterfall with two acolytes of the god Fudô
above Robinson:
S93.4 |
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Day: Shakku (赤口, not
a good day) Character:
Ômori Hikoshichi sees the
reflection of beautiful woman as a demon Robinson:
S93.5 I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Day: Tomobiki (友引, a
bad days for funerals) Character:
Sasaki Takatsuna being shown crossing place of the Robinson:
S93.6 |
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This is a less
labor-intensive state of the above design (note the title cartouche), which
almost invariably means a later printing. I am grateful to Ward Pieters
for locating this image. |
“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement.
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