Surimono of Women,
Part II
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachinin no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Saishin (柴進) Description: A beauty
walking in the hall of votive paintings (emadou)
in a Buddhist temple viewing a landscape painting Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.2.5 Poems: 額堂にのそきし杖の花とはなあはせ鏡の小町揚たひ by Ikkokutei
Senkin (一石亭千金) and摘草のこしやすめみる額堂は 美をもつくしの筆の数／＼ by Sekaitei
Kamendo (青海亭亀人) |
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An alternate state without Surikô
Shinzô’s seal |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachinin no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Shubu (朱武) Description: A beauty
leaned upon a fulling-block looking behind her at a flowering cherry Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.2.6 Poets: Suihôtei Komatsu (翠峯亭小松) and
Hisakataya (久堅屋) NOTE: A fulling-block
was used to remove unwanted creases and place desired creases in clothes as
an iron is used today. |
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Another state without Surikô Shinzô’s
seal |
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A simplified state of the above design
with a dark moon. |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachinin no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Taisô (戴宗) Description: A beauty
seated in a palanquin holding a
pipe taking a rest by a road sign Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.2.7 Poet: Both poems are by Kamenoya Osamaro (亀の屋尾佐丸) |
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The area above the head of the toy
horse on palanquin roof is brown. |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Rinchû (林沖) Description: A beauty clad
in an overkimono and a black scarf around her head holding a closed umbrella Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.1 Poems: 幾重つゝむ雪を初日にとりのけてひらくや梅のはなのりん仲 by Sekaitei
Kamendo (青海亭亀人) and 幾重つゝむ雪を初日にとりのけてひらくや梅のはなのりん仲 by Hanamitei
Tokiwa (花実亭常磐) |
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Another state |
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Another state with neither poem nor
Surikô Shinzô’s seal |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Kôsonshô (公孫勝) Description: A beauty
standing by a basin (o-tearai) surprised
at the sight of a dragon reflected on the surface of the water Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.2 Poet: Suihôtei Komatsu (翠峯亭小松) |
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Another state without the poem, Surikô
Shinzô’s seal, and the club mon |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Chôsei (張清) Description: Beauty throwing
unglazed earthenware dishes from Asukayama (飛鳥山) Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.3 Poets: Ikkokutei Senkin (一石亭千金) and
Hisakataya (久堅屋) |
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Another state of the above design with the subtitle (hyakuhachiban no uchi, 百八番之内) removed |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Bushô (武松) Description: Reclining beauty
reading the Suikoden (通俗水滸伝) and holding a
pipe with her legs in the kotatsu
with a calico cat on top Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.4 Poems: さなからにおくりし糸の観世水扇の凧の春の舞そめ by Amanoya
Wakashiba (天の屋若芝) and 松はやし声をそろへて諷ふときかせに立舞ふ花の梅かゝ by Hisakataya
(久堅屋) NOTE: A kotatsu is a low, open wooden frame
covered by a blanket with a heat source underneath. |
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Another state of the above surimono,
with the poem, poetry club’s circular emblem, subtitle (hyakuhachiban no
uchi, 百八番之内), and
printer’s seal removed |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Goyô (吳用) Description: Beauty seated
on a large pillow with a long pipe and a standing clock behind her Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.5 Poems: 文学ふ窓のほとりにさく梅の実にならはよきはかりことなる by Suihôtei
Komatsu (翠峯亭小松) and 年玉の文の使をまたすうちしひれきらさぬ屠蘇の酒盛 by Hisakataya (久堅屋) |
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Another state without bokashi to
kimono edge |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Chôjun (張順) Description: A geisha in a covered boat wringing out
a piece of cloth Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.6 Poets: Gachoan Michitane (臥猪庵三千種) and Hisakataya
(久堅屋) |
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An alternate state of the above design
without Surikô Shinzô’s seal |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Sôkô (宋江) Description: A beauty
playing a one-stringed chin (ichigenkin, 一絃琴) while looking at a painting of the
goddess Benten Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21
by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.7 Poets: Rokujutei Shôtô (緑樹亭松濤) and
Hisakataya (久堅屋) NOTE: The club’s koto mon is on the sleeve. |
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Another state |
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Series: Suikoden of
Women’s Customs from 108 Sheets (Fûzoku
onna Suikoden hyakuhachiban no uchi, 風俗女水滸傳百八番之内) Suikoden hero: Shishin (史進) Description: A beauty
seated, wearing a kimono decorated
with a dragon, and resting her hands on a long pipe Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô
(摺工 晉象) Date: c. 1829 Schaap: 2.a.3.8 Poems: 春霞ひけの相図に拍子木のかすも九つうちかけの竜 by Hatsushimo Okimado
(初霜 起窓) and あは雪はふりつけれともとけやすく今朝は霞のたて引そする by Hisakataya
(久堅屋) |
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Another state with a dark twisted
pattern on the kimono trim |
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“Schaap”
refers to listing in Heroes and Ghosts:
Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden,
1998).
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