Surimono of miscellaneous subjects
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Description:
Two ladies watching boys catching fireflies with bamboo sticks. The women were draw by Utagawa Kuninao and the children were drawn by Kuniyoshi. Size: Date: c.
1835 Schaap:
1.a.1 |
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Description:
A minogame (thousand year old tortoise) appearing
to the seven gods of good luck all dressed as figures from Japanese history
and legend Size: Nagaban
(approximately 8 by 20 inches or 20 by 50 centimeters) Date: c.
1836 Schaap:
1.a.2 |
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Description:
Detail of the trunk of a large flowering cherry tree Size: Date: c.
1835 Schaap:
1.a.3 |
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A plum tree Size: Date: c.
1835 Schaap:
1.a.4 |
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Description:
Autumn grasses and a full moon Size: Date: c.
1831 Schaap:
1.a.5 |
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No image available Description:
Autumn grasses and a full moon Size: Nagaban
(approximately 8 by 20 inches or 20 by 50 centimeters) Date: c.
1831 Schaap:
1.a.6 NOTE: This
surimono is unsigned and different
from the above print. |
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Description:
A three footed dish with a miniature representation of the pine tree at
Takasago with a long tailed tortoise approaching it from the right and a
crane flying over it on the left Size: Date: Schaap:
1.a.8 |
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Description:
The seven gods of good luck imitating the five annual festivals Size: Date:
1832-1833 Schaap:
1.b.5 |
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The seven gods of good luck being entertained by a chanter Size: 40.6
by 55.8 centimeters Date: Schaap:
1.b.6 |
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Description:
The warrior Hatakeyama no Shigetada
(1164-1205) carrying his horse down a steep cliff Size: Date: 1848
Schaap:
1.c.4 |
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A dragon in a dark cloud rising to the top of Size: 18.4
by 24.5 centimeters Date:
probably 1844 Schaap:
1.c.5 |
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No image available Description:
A hare and a badger standing by a plum tree Size: 12.0
by 16.0 centimeters Date: 1855
Schaap:
1.c.6 |
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Description:
A spray of camellia, a bamboo tea scoop (chashaku) and a small
turtle-shape box with a lid Size: 45
by 37 centimeters Date: Schaap:
1.c.7 NOTE: The
unusual size suggests that this is a fragment of a larger surimono. |
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Title: A series
of two on the stories of the Han and Chű (Kansô niban no uchi) Description:
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Description:
Portrait of the sumô wrestler Hirado Hiiryokubi Size: Date: Schaap:
2.8 |
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Description:
Hattara Sonji with his
white tiger Size: Date: 1830
Schaap:
2.9 |
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Description:
The three Chinese heroes of Shu playing a game of ken Size: Date: c.
1840 Schaap:
2.10 |
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Description:
Still life of a koto,
a branch of plum in a bronze vase, a kimono
and a scroll painting of Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap:
4.2 |
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Description:
Similar to above with different pattern on the kimono, different poems, and lacking emblem of the Taikogawa poetry group in right-upper corner Size: Shikishiban
(about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap:
4.2b |
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Description:
Three open fans alluding to three noh plays Size: Date: Schaap:
4.3 |
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Title: Harimaze jôruri kagami oishi Description:
Size: Date: c.
1854 Schaap:
4.4 |
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Description:
Bird flying Size: Date: Schaap:
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Description:
Children playing in the snow Size: Nagaban (approximately
8 by 20 inches or 20 by 50 centimeters) Date: 1826 Schaap:
Not listed |
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Title: Size: Date: Schaap:
Not listed Note: This
is an advertising print (hikifuda) and not a true surimono. Image and
information courtesy of Guy Pepermans |
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Description:
Size: Date: Schaap:
Not listed |
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Description:
Steaming vessel with poem 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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