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Title: Scene at
Toeizan (Toto Toeizen no zu, 東都東叡山の圖)
Description: Three ladies
and a child in ornate robes admiring the cherry blossoms that surround them
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Wakasa-ya
Uhei
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.
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Title: None
Description: Three bijin on the engawa of a house overlooking a water-garden with a goldfish pond
Date: 1851 (censors
Mera and Watanabe)
Publisher: Mikawa-ya
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Title: View of the
Oi River (大井川之圖)
Description: Women engaged
in various activities in the river
Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu)
Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô
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Title: Snow Cat: The
First Snow of the Year
Description: Court ladies
showing a giant snow cat to a young prince Genji after the first snow
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya
Tôbei
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Another state of the above triptych
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Title: Crowds at the
Horse Riding Stunts at Ryogôku (Ryôgoku daikyokuba no nigiwai, 両ごく大 馬の)
Description:
Date: 1851 (censors
Mera and Watanabe)
Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya
Masagorô
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Title: Autumn
Evening Scene (Aki no yukei, 秋の夕景)
Description: Three ladies
in ornate robes in the light of a quarter-moon among the autumn plants
Date: 1847-1848
(censors Hama and Kinugasa)
Publisher: Kita-ya
Magobei
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these two
alternate states of the right sheet from the above triptych. They may have been intended as stand-alone
single sheet prints.
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Title:
Description: Three women
alighting from a covered boat (left) onto a pier, to ascend some stone steps
(right), a small group of plovers flying overhead
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Sawa-ya
Kôchichi
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Title: Musume On-memie no zu
Description: Presentation
of a robe to a young princess in a stately room with blossoming cherries
outside
Date: 1846-1852
Publisher: Ebi-ya
Rinnosuke
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Title: Yanagishima, Morning
in the Auspicious Direction (Yanagishima asa no ehô, 柳島朝ノ恵方)
Description: Women
visiting the Yanagishima Myôken
Buddhist temple
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya
Tôbei
NOTE: Myôken is a syncretic deity of the Pole Star, sometimes
associated with Benten, the white snake being sacred to both. The women are making ehomai,
a New Year pilgrimage made while still dark to a temple (nominally) in the
auspicious direction for the year as determined by Onmyôdô
(a traditional Japanese system of cosmology and divination). The tree behind the fence was a huge pine
where the god was believed to have descended in the form of a snake, hence
the votive plaques with white snakes.
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this information.
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above design.
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Title:
Description: Women
visiting a shrine at night
Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu)
Publisher: No seal
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Title: Modern
Choices (Mitate tosei, 見立当世)
Description: A modern view
of the four classes, from right to left: shi
(samurai, 士), ko (craftsmen, 工), no
(farmers, 農), and sho (merchants, 商)
Date: c. 1831
Publisher: Ômi-ya
Heihachi
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Original drawing for the right sheet of the
above triptych
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Title: Picture of Mukojima Daishichi (Mukôjima Daishichi no
zu, 向島大七之図)
Description: Three women
standing by a veranda
Date: c. 1835
Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon
NOTE: Daishichi was a
restaurant near Mukojima Shrine which rented out
checkered yukata, so patrons could bathe and eat while relaxing.
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Two sheets from other states of the above
triptych
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Title: Ochasho Yamamoto (御茶所 山本)
Description: Woman in front of Ochasho
Yamamoto, Yamamoto’s famous tea warehouse
Date:
1843-1846 (censor Muramatsu Genroku)
Publisher: Unidentified
seal:
NOTE: The company’s mon
was, and still is, the character 嘉, meaning auspicious, under a
mountain. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: The Sweet
Shop at Sagacho Hukagawa
Bridge (深川佐賀町菓子船橋屋)
Description: Three ladies
standing in front of the shop with a dog and five puppies
Date: c. 1842
Publisher: Izum-ya Ichibei
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Title: Untitled
Description: Women in front of a store
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: Kaidômaru eboshi gi no zu (怪童丸烏帽子着之図, The Capping Ceremony of Kaidômaru)
Description: Kaidômaru
(Kinatarô) in the ceremony celebrating his coming-of-age, where he is granted
the right to wear the black-lacquered headgear carried by the lady on the
left
Date: 1842-1846
(censor Murata Sahei)
Publisher: Takahashi-ya
Takakichi
NOTE: This triptych is listed as T90 in in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, NY, 1982)
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Title: The First
Sunrise on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hatsuhinode)
Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome)
Publisher: Ebi-ya
Rinnosuke
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Another state of the above design
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Title: None
Description: Three women
with geese flying above and descending in the background
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Maru-ya
Seijirô
NOTE: This triptych
may refer to the eight views, one of which is descending geese (rakugan).
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Title: View of
(birds) View of Yanagishima in Spring (Yanagishima no haru [no] kei)
Description: Three women
and a boy by a stream with geese
Date: 1st
month of 1860
Publisher: Kiku-ya
Ichibei
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state.
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Title: None
Description: Three of
courtesans and their kamuro with flowers,
trees, and lanterns in the background.
The courtesans are Tsukasa of the Ôgiya (扇屋内 司, right), Hanazome
of the Ôgiya (扇屋内 花染, center), and an unread name on the
left.
Date: c. 1840
Publisher: Wakasa-ya
Yoichi
NOTE: This triptych is
signed Chô-ô-rô Kuniyoshi ga (朝櫻楼 国芳 画).
I am grateful to Robert Pryor and Michel Ouellet for locating the
images.
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Title: Three Women Performing a Ritual with Sashes (三婦久對一配機嫌, San fukutai itsu bai kigen)
Description:
Three women performing the obi’iwai (帯祝い) ritual, a traditional ceremony in which a cotton
sash is tied around a pregnant woman’s abdomen to protect the baby
Date:
1846-1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô
I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information
about this triptych.
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Title: Spring Night Scene (Harunoyoru geshiki, 春の夜げしき)
Description:
Three women with dogs and child
Date:
c. 1845-1846
Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: Three Women Tipsy on Toso (Toso kigen
san'nin namayoi, 屠蘇機嫌三人生酔)
Description:
Three woman who drank too much toso, a
spiced sake often consumed at New Year
Date:
1843-1846 (censor Kinugasa Fusajirô)
Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
NOTE: The
seal of another publisher was clumsily removed from the left lower corner of
each sheet. I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this image.
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