Surimono of Women,
Part II
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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: A
Set of Three (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 NOTE: Although
Schaap lists this as a print of a beautiful woman,
the homely face suggests that it may actually represent kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorô
III in a female role. |
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Series: A
Set of Three (Sanbantsuzuki)
Description:
Beauty standing on a bank of the Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c.
1832 Schaap:
2.a.6.2 NOTE:
Although Schaap lists this as a print of a
beautiful woman, the homely face suggests that it may actually represent kabuki actor Onoe
Kikugorô III offstage. |
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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 |
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Description:
Teahouse waitress (right) and geisha (left) by the gates of Okido with a view of 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Description:
Two beauties, one inspecting her hair with two mirrors Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c.
1831 Schaap:
2.d.1.4 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title: The
Description:
A geisha folding an origami superimposed on a on a
battledore Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap:
Not listed |
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Description:
Seated courtesan with a kokyu bow, shamisen and koto Size: 20.2
x 30.6 centimeters Date: Schaap:
Not listed |
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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 |
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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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