Triptychs and diptych of beautiful women,

Part III

 

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

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.

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

Title: View of the Wide Sumida River

Description:

Date: 1846-1852

Publisher:

Kuniyoshi - (triptych, snow) Court Ladies showing a giant snow cat to a young prince after the first snow, 1848 (Alt

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Title: 柳鴻朝恵方

Description: Three women at Benten shrine at night with a fence behind them and a blossoming plum tree in the background.  The fence is decorated with snake placards, which are offerings to Benten.

Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

 

NOTE: Since the censors’ seals date this triptych to 1847-1850, the snake placards cannot be a reference to the year of the snake, but must refer to Benten, to whom snakes were sacred.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above design.

Title:

Description: Women visiting a shrine at night

Date: 1849-1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Publisher: No seal

Title: Modern Choices (Mitate tosei, 見立当世)

Description: A modern view of the four classes, from right to left: shi (samurai, ), ko (craftsmen, ), no (farmers, ), and sho (merchants, )

Date: c. 1831

Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi

Original drawing for the right sheet of the above triptych

Title:

Description: Three women standing by a veranda

Date: c. 1835

Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon

Two sheets from other states of the above triptych

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 , meaning auspicious, under a mountain.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Title: Candy Shop at Sagacho Hukagawa Bridge (深川佐賀町菓子船橋屋)

Description:

Date: 1842 or earlier

Publisher:

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.

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) 

Title: The First Sunrise on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hatsuhinode)

Date: 1849-1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Another state of the above design

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).

Title: 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

Title: None

Description: Aizuri-e triptych of beautiful women with flowers, trees, and lanterns in the background

Date: c. 1840

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

 

NOTE: This triptych is signed Chô-ô-rô Kuniyoshi ga (朝櫻楼 国芳 ).

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet from another state of the above design.  It shows Hana… of the Ogiya (扇屋内花…).

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.

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.

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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