Children’s Games of the Five Festivals

(Kodomo asobi gosekku no uchi, 子供遊御節句のうち)

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

1842-1846

This series is not listed 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.

	Title: New Year's Day (Shôgatsu, 正月) Description: Children with battledores
	Title: The Third Month (Sangatsu, 三月) Description:
	Title: The Fifth Month (Gogatsu, 五月) Description:
	Title: The Seventh Month (Shichigatsu, 七月), also known as the Star Festival (Tanabata, 七夕) Description:
	Title: The Ninth Month (Kugatsu, 九月), also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival Description: Children with chrysanthemums and fruit
	I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this simplified state of the above design lacking speckles, clouds, and publisher’s seal.

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