A Collection of Pictures in Modern Style

(Imayô gakumen awase, 今様額面合)

Publisher: Izuzen

c. 1850

This series of uchiwa (non-folding fan) prints shows women with framed pictures. The term “modern style” refers to the pictures being framed ̶ a practice recently imported from the West. The series is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

Description: Woman holding a fan and burning a taper beside a portrait of Soga no Jurô

Description: Woman with a partially unrolled letter before a portrait of Sôjô-bô, king of the tengu

Description: Woman with picture of Soga no Gorô after having his kusazuri (plates hanging from the belt of traditional Japanese armor) ripped off by Asahina Saburô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for information about this print.

Description: Woman writing with a picture of Minamoto no Yoshitsune under the cherry tree at Suma

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