Comic and miscellaneous individual prints

 

These prints are not part of series or polyptychs.  They are each about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters, a size known as ôban.

 

Title: Drunken Otafuku (Sakazuki o uketa otafuku)

Date: 1847

Publisher: Horimasa

 

Title: Humorous Portrayal of the Six Immortal Poets (Giga rokkasen)

Description: The six immortal poets—Ariwara no Narihira, Sôjô Henjô, Kisen Hôshi, Ôtomo no Kuronushi, Bunya no Yasuhide and Ono no Komachi—watching a puppet play

Date: Eighth month of 1858

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Title: Urashima’s Mask Box at the Crossing (Tsuji urashima ataru menbako)

Description: Masks resembling the following actors emerging from the Urashima’s box:
 1. Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
 2. Nakamura Utaemon IV
 3. Bandô Mitsugorô IV
 4. Sawamura Sôjûrô V
 5. Onoe Kikugorô III
 6. Bandô Hikosaburô IV
 7. Ôtani Tomoemon III
 8. Matsumoto Kôshirô VI
 9. Ichimura Uzaemon XII
10.
Ichikawa Kuzô II
11. Onoe Tamizô II
12. Seki Sanjûrô III

Date: 1848-1850

Publisher: No seal

 

Title: The Popular Raccoon Dogs as the Six Immortal Poets (Dôke tanuki no rokkasen)

Date: 10th month of 1846

Publisher: Ise-ya Kisuke

Title: Dôke ken nan de mo kan de mo

Description: conversation among a tiger, a toad and a fox from a parody of ‘Anything Goes’

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) of Horeichô

 

This is another state of the above print.

Title: Shinsaku tsukutsuku ken

Description: Ushiwaka Maru and the tengu

Date: 9th month of 1847

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbe

Title: Ataru ken kurabe

Description: Three male dancers

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Publisher: Yamashiro-ya Heisuke

 

Title: The Tennô Festival in Ôdenma-chô (Ôdenma-chô Tennô matsuri)

Description:

Date: 1847-1852

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô)

 

Image courtesy of Marie de Strycker-Steinmetz

 

 

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