Stories of Wise Women and Faithful Wives,

Part I

(Kenjo reppuden, 賢女烈婦傳)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô (伊場屋仙三郎)

c. 1841-1842

The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Title: Anju-hime (安壽姫) Description: Anju-himem, also known as Princess Anju, carrying water buckets with chidori (wave-birds) flying above her Robinson: S20.1
	Title: Kaga no Chiyo (加賀のチ代) Description: Chiyo of Kaga at a well carrying a bucket Robinson: S20.2 Image courtesy of Richard Illing
	This state of the above print is a less labor intensive printing, which almost invariably means a later edition. The wooden block for the orange clouds was not used, and the green shading (bokashi) representing grass was omitted. Bokashi was achieved by hand-applying a gradation of ink to the wooden printing block rather than inking the block uniformly. This hand-application had to be repeated for each sheet of paper that was printed.
	Title: Giô and Gijo (祗王 祇女) Description: Shirabyôshi dancers Giô and Ginyo collecting flowers after their retirement as nuns Robinson: S20.3
	Another state of the above print
	Title: Princess Go-ô (Go-ô-hime, 午王姫) Description: Princess Go-ô holding a folded paper and a spray of blossoms Robinson: S20.4
	Title: Hangaku-jo (板額女) Description: Hangaku-jo wearing a hair band and kimono over armor Robinson: S20.5
	Title: The maidservant Hatsu-jo (婢初女) Description: Hatsu-jo drinking from a dipper at a garden tank in a shower of rain Robinson: S20.6
	This is a less labor-intensive printing of the above design, which almost invariably means a later edition. The woodblock used to print dark blue on the garden tank and in the text cartouche was omitted.
	Title: Hatsu-hana (初花) Description: Hatsu-hana in prayer under the Gongen Waterfall which resulted in the cure of her crippled husband Robinson: S20.7
	Title: Hotoke-gozen (佛御前) Description: Hotoke-gozen reading a poem on a soji screen with the aid of a lantern Robinson: S20.8
	Title: Hyakuman (百萬) Description: Hyakuman of Nara, dancing with a fan and pulling a small cart full of toys, watched by her bewildered child Robinson: S20.9
	Title: Izumi-shikibu (和泉式部) Description: Izumi-shikibu on a visit to Kamo Shrine Robinson: S20.10
	Title: Izutsu-hime (井筒姫) Description: Izutsu-hime seated by a brazier Robinson: S20.11
	Title: Jôruri-hime (じょうるり姫) Description: Jôruri-hime standing under a lamp bedecked with streamers Robinson: S20.12
	Title: Kaji of Gion (Gion Kaji, 祇園梶) Description: Kaji of Gion seated on a bench with her fan and writing brushes Robinson: S20.13
	Title: Kane-jo (金女) Description: Strong woman Kane-jo holding a horse Robinson: S20.14
	Title: Kesa Gozen (袈裟御前) Description: Lady Kesa Gozen cutting her hair so that she may impersonate her husband and be killed in his place Robinson: S20.15
	Another state of the above design
	Title: Masaoka (政岡) Description: Masaoka shielding Tsugichiyo Maru under her clothes from the apparition of an old warrior-monk Robinson: S20.16

“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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