Miscellaneous Fan Prints of Women
Part II
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Series: Seven
Examples of Benevolence in Modern Women (Tôsei shichi jin sho jo) Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Beauty on a
veranda at night Date: 1847-1848
(censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei NOTE: Jin is the Confucian virtue of
benevolence. I am grateful to Richard
Illing for this image. |
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Series: Roku kasen (六花 川), a pun that
can mean either “The Six Immortal Poets” or “Six Beautiful Rivers”) Robinson: Not listed River: Ayasegawa (綾瀬川) Description: Date: 1849 (censors
Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Series: Roku kasen (六花 川), a pun that
can mean either “The Six Immortal Poets” or “Six Beautiful Rivers”) Robinson: Not listed River: Ôkawa (大川) Description: Date: 1849 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Series: Roku kasen (六花 川), a pun that
can mean either “The Six Immortal Poets” or “Six Beautiful Rivers”) Robinson: Not listed River: Sumidagawa (隅田川) Description: Beauty under cherry tree putting
her hand on a figure of Daruma, representing cherry blossoms Date: 1849 Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Series: Genji
Parodies for the Five Elements (Mitate Genji go-gyô, 見立源氏五行) Robinson: Not listed Title: Earth (土) Chapter of
Genji:
23 (Hatsune, はつ祢) Description: Woman holding a wooden box Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: |
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Series: Eight
Pictures of Modern Women (Imayô onna hakkei, 今世婦八景) Robinson: Not listed Title: Pleasure at
the Mistress’s House (せうたくの楽がん) Description: Woman holding a sake bottle Date: 1849-1852
(censors Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Series: Eight
Pictures of Modern Women (Imayô onna hakkei, 今世婦八景) Robinson: Not listed Title: Clearing
Weather in a Palace Garden (Oku niwa no seiran, おく庭のせいらん) Description: Date: 1849-1852
(censors Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Series: Eight
Pictures of Modern Women (Imayô onna hakkei, 今世婦八景) Robinson: Not listed Title: Evening Glow
at the Curtain (Nôren no sekishô, のふれんの関せう) Description: Date: 1849-1852
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Series: Famous Kinds
of Pines (Kômei matsu zukushi,
高名松つくし) Robinson: Not listed Title: None Description: Beauty
holding a cage for fireflies being caught by children in the background Date: 4th
month of 1854 Publisher: Maru-ya Jimpachi NOTE: “Pines” was
slang for young beauties. |
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Series: Famous Kinds
of Pines (Kômei matsu zukushi,
高名松つくし) Robinson: Not listed Title: None Description: Beauty
holding a cup on a bridge Date: 4th
month of 1854 Publisher: Maru-ya Jimpachi |
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Series: Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Young lady
watching a caged bird with fireflies in the background Date: c. 1850 Publisher: |
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Series: Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Beauty with a
thimble Date: 1843-1846 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series: Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Woman
dedicating a hand towel at a washing trough in a shrine Date: 1842-1846 Publisher: Izuzen NOTE: The woman is holding a towel that bears
Kuniyoshi’s kiri seal, and the hanging towel on the
extreme right bears the toshidama seal of the
Utagawa clan. |
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Series: Modern Style
(Imayo sugata) Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Beauty with
an umbrella beside a playbill Date: Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon |
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Title: The
Temperament of the Modern Young Women (Tosei
musume katagi, 當盛娘かた気) Description: Beauty
repapering shoji while a child
peeks through the frame Date: c. 1840 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke NOTE: The title of this print is a pun. The reading of かた気 is also the
reading of the kanji 敵, which means opponent or enemy, and small children
are the natural enemies of shoji screens. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image and information. |
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Series: None Title: None Description: Woman
carrying a lantern with inset landscape Date: 3rd
month of 1856 Publisher: Hanmoto ta (板元 太) |
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Series: A Set of the
Best Dances (Odori ichi no uchi,
おどり壱の内) Robinson: Not listed Title: Tenaraiko (手習子) Description: Nagauta
danced by a young girl with her calligraphy notebook and umbrella Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichiemon |
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Series: A Set of the
Best Dances (Odori ichi no uchi,
おどり壱の内) Robinson: Not listed Title: Shiokumi (汐くみ) Description: The salt
gatherer (shiokumi) Matsukaze,
dancing, wearing Ariwara no Yukihira’s formal hat (eboshi) Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichiemon I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Series: Special Order
Custom Dyeing (Chûmon o-atsurae-zome, 註文御あつらひ染) Robinson: Not listed Title: Wood Colored
(Moku-iro, もくいろ) Description: Girl in a
blue and red patterned robe with a paulownia badge holding a small sake cup Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Publisher: Izumi-ya (seal 中 under double mountain) NOTE: Kuniyoshi’s kiri seal
is on the cup. |
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Series: Special Order
Custom Dyeing (Chûmon o-atsurae-zome, 註文御誂染) Robinson: Not listed Title: Indigo… (Ai…,
あい…) Description: Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Publisher: Izumi-ya (seal 中 under double mountain) I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Title: None Description: Beauty
leaning on a fence and watching a dragonfly hovering above a flowering plant Date: c. 1840-1842 Publisher: Maru-ya Jinpachi |
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Series: Untitled
series of fan prints of women with inset landscapes Description: Woman with
letter tucked in her obi Date: 1860 Publisher: Tsuji-ya Yasubei I am grateful to David Kutcher for this image. |
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Series: Untitled series
of fan prints of women with inset landscapes Description: Teahouse
waitress holding an empty tray Date: 1860 Publisher: Tsuji-ya Yasubei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Title: None Description: Mother amusing
child with hand shadows Date: c. 1845 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Series: Pine, Bamboo,
and Robinson: Not listed Title: Description: Woman
wrapping cloth around her head Date: 1844-1845
(censor Tanaka) Publisher: No seal |
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“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). . CLICK
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