Surimono of Women,

Part II

 

 

 

Series: A Series of Five on Salt Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi)

Number on print: 1

Description: Beauty standing next to a large anchor holding  stick and a fish

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1830

Schaap: 2.a.4.1

 

Series: A Series of Five on Salt Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi)

Number on print: 2

Description: A squatting beauty holding down an octopus

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1830

Schaap: 2.a.4.2

 

Series: A Series of Five on Salt Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi)

Number on print: 3

Description: A beauty with a wooden stick in her hand and a young girl at her side

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1830

Schaap: 2.a.4.3

 

Series: A Series of Five on Salt Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi)

Number on print: 4

Description: A kneeling beauty digging for shells with a basket at her side

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1830

Schaap: 2.a.4.4

 

Series: A Series of Five on Salt Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi)

Number on print: 5

Description: A standing beauty tying her belt with a scythe leaning against a basket at her feet

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1830

Schaap: 2.a.4.5

 

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Series: Sanbantsuzuki

Description: Beauty seated by a shôji screen resting her hands on a long pipe

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1832

Schaap: 2.a.6.1

 

Series: Sanbantsuzuki

Description: Beauty standing on a bank of the Sumida River with an umbrella in the snow

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1832

Schaap: 2.a.6.2

Description: Two beauties on the beach at Enoshima

Size: Shikishiban diptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Schaap: 2.c.4

Description: Teahouse waitress (right) and geisha (left) by the gates of Okido with a view of Takanawa Bay and Mt. Fuji 

Size: Two Shikishiban from a larger composition (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: Early 1830s

Schaap: 2.c.6

 

Description: One of the daughters of the dragon king Ryûjin who lives in then bottom of the sea

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: 1832

Schaap: 2.d.1.1

 

Description: A beauty hanging a scroll painting in a tokonoma (decorative alcove in a home)

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: 1832

Schaap: 2.d.1.2

 

Description: A beauty watching a toy snake

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: 1833 or 1839

Schaap: 2.d.1.3

 

Description: Two beauties, one inspecting her hair with two mirrors

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date:

Schaap: 2.d.1.4

 

Description: A seated oiran with her kimono spread out around her with a caldron behind her

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: c. 1835

Schaap: 2.d.1.5

 

Description: Courtesan in training (shinzô) kneeling by a pile of cushions on which a large ox is resting, in an allusion to a model of an ox (nade-ushi) stroked for good luck

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date: 1829

Schaap: 2.d.1.8

 

Description: A courtesan kneeling in a covered boat at night

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date:

Schaap: 2.d.1.9

 

Image courtesy of Richard Illing

 

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Description: A girl smoking a pipe on New Year’s day

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date:

Schaap: 2.d.1.10

 

Description: A geisha and a waitress (nakai) with a lantern outside an imposing gate

Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters)

Date:

Schaap: Not listed

Description: Seated courtesan with a kokyu bow, shamisen and koto

Size: 20.2 x 30.6 centimeters

Date:

Schaap: Not listed

Title: Tochiya Tochibei's fancy goods store

Description: An advertising print (hikifuda) showing the store and women admiring the merchandise

Size:

Date:

Schaap: Not listed

‘Schaap’ refers to listing in ‘Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi’ by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998).

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