Animals and Plants,
Part III
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Title: None Size: Unknown Description: Bush warbler
or nightingale (uguisu, 鴬), swallow (tsubame, 燕), cuckoo (hototogisu,
子規), mountain pheasant,
pigeon, and cormorant with actors’ mon on
their bodies Date: c. 1848-1850 Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: Exhibition of
a Chrysanthemum with 100 Different Flowers (Hyakushu tsugi wake giku, 百種接分菊) Description: A large group of people is
admiring the colorful blossoms of a huge chrysanthemum tree grafted with many
different varieties Date: 9th
month of 1845 (censor Fukatsu Ihei) Publisher: Izuzen |
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Series: Famous Products
of the Provinces Robinson: Not listed Title: Butchering a
Dead Whale Size: Ôban triptych
(each sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: Date: 1837-1839 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Series: None Title: Big Catch and
Prosperity of Seven Bays (Nana ura tairyô hanjô
no zu, 七浦大漁繁昌之図) Size: Ôban triptych
(each sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: A group of
women and a child watching a whale hunt Date: 1853 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Series: None Title: Crowds
viewing a captured whale in a bay with a view of Size: Ôban triptych
(each sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: Crowds
viewing a captured whale in a bay with a view of Date: c. 1848-1853 Publisher: Maru-ya Seigirô |
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Series: None Title: Size: Ôban triptych
(each sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: Drawing for a
triptych of whales being pulled ashore Date: Publisher: No seal |
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Series: None Robinson: Not listed Title: Drawings of
Fifty-three Lovingly Raised Animals (Myô kaikô gojûsanbiki, 其のまま地口 猫飼好五十三疋) Size: Ôban triptych
(each sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: Cats
representing each of the fifty-three stations of the Tôkaidô
road Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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This is a reproduction of the above triptych made by
Watanabe. The woodblocks were expertly
reproduced, but a careful examination will reveal slight differences in the
black outlines and text. |
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Robinson: 198 Title: Series of
Proverbs (Tatoe-zukushi no uchi, たとえ尽の内) Size: Ôban diptych (each
sheet is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Description: Cats
illustrating various proverbs Date: 4th
month of 1852 Publisher: Kaga-ya Yasubei NOTE: Robinson
lists Tatoye-dzukushi no uchi as
series 198. Since only one of the
three designs, of which I am aware, bears a title, it seems more accurate to
consider this to be a triptych. |
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This is a modern reproduction. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these reproductions
that lack Kuniyoshi’s signature. They
each bear the title Fifty-three Cats on the Tokaido (東海道五十三疋ねこづくし). |
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Title:
Fashionable Cats Juggling Balls (流行猫の曲鞠 on left sheet
and 流行猫の曲手まり on right sheet) Date:
c. 1841 Publisher:
Kawaguchi-ya Uhei |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this reduced
size, c. 1850, reproduction of a Kuniyoshi print made by Utagawa Sadayoshi,
an Osaka artist. The fake signature is
writen as 国芳画, using the modern shinjitai 国, rather than as 國芳画, the way Kuniyoshi would have written it. |
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