Children’s Games for the Five Festivals
(Osana asobi go sekku no uchi, 雅遊五節句之内)
Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi
(Jakurindô)
c. 1840
This series shows children playing games that are related to the five festivals, which are Jinjitsu (January 7) Feast of the Seven Herbs or Mankind’s Day; Johshi (March 3) Doll Festival or Girls’ Day; Tango (May 5) Boys’ Day; Tanabata (July 7) Star Festival or Seventh Night; and Choyo (September 9) The Chrysanthemum Festival. The series is listed as number 129 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. |
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Title: Tanabata (七夕) Star
Festival or Seventh Night on July 7 Description: |
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Another state of the above print |
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Title: Yayoi (弥生) Girls’
Festival Description: |
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Title: Tango
(端午)
Boys’ Festival Description: |
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Title: Kiku no tsuki (菊月) Chrysanthemum Festival Description: Boys
wrestling |
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A greatly altered state of the above design published 1846-1852 |
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Title: Seiyô (青陽) New Year Description: Boys in a
parade |
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The woodblocks for the above print were reworked in the second
month of 1847 to produce this image.
The print now bears the title Ken
no keiko (Ken Exercises) and has the following
text: Sake wa kenzake
(sake o tsugu furi o shite) shikarareta (atama o osaeru koto) |
‘Robinson’ refers to listing of
the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William
Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). CLICK
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