Fan Prints of Humorous and Miscellaneous Subjects

Part II

 

Series: Scenes Along the Sumida River (Sumidagawa sankei, 隅田川三景)

Title: Yamato

Date: 4th month of 1852

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Series: None

Title: None

Description: Farmers planting rice

Date: c. 1839

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

NOTE: This image is signed Ichiyûsai hitsu (一勇斎 ).  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Hehe Galerie for this image.

Series: None

Title: None

Description: Landscape with Tenjin Shrine (天ぢやしろ), stream and pond

Date: 1843-1846 (censor Yoshimura Gentarô)

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

NOTE: This image is signed Ichiyûsai hitsu (一勇斎 ). 

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Famous Sights in the Willow Capital, View of Nihonbashi, 1854, pub

Series: Famous Sights in the Willow Capital

Title: View of Nihonbashi

Date: 1st month of 1854

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Description: Fisherman by Moonligh

Date:

Publisher:

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Description:

Date: 1830-1844

Publisher: Echigo-ya  Chohachi

Snow, moon and flowers, 1839

Description: Moon over the masts of a ship and flowers in the snow representing the trilogy of ‘snow, moon and flowers’

Date: c. 1839

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Sake cups floating in a bowl with a design of Asakusa temple and Mt

Description: Three sake cups floating in a bowl with a design of Asakusa temple and Mt. Fuji

Date: c. 1844-1846

Publisher: Echigo-ya  Chohachi

Description: A lamplighter with an oil can

Date: 1842-1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Description: A brown crayfish underwater

Date: c. 1844-1847

Publisher: No seal

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Turtles Playing Kickball (Kame no kemari), c

Description: Turtles Playing Kickball (Kame no kemari)

Date: c. 1841

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Series: Goldfish that Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo, 似たか金魚)

Description: Turtle and goldfish with expressions of popular actors.  Note that some of the goldfish have markings resembling actors’ crests.  The following actors and one publisher are represented:

 

1.  Ichikawa Kuzô II
2.  Ôtani Hiroemon V
3.  Ibaya Senzaburô (publisher)
4.  Nakamura Utaemon IV
5.  Iwai Shijaku (Hanshirô VII)

Date: c. 1843

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

Series: Goldfish that Resemble Them (Nita ka kingyo)

Description: Turtle and goldfish with actors’ expressions

Date: c. 1843

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

Description: Octopus and black bear wrestling with a dragonfly officiating 

Date: c. 1839

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon (seal name Hanmoto Ue, 板元 )

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state with the publisher’s seal on a white background.

Description: Butterfly and camellia

Date: 1st month of 1853 

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Description: Sparrows, this is a keyblock print with hand coloring

Date: 1852-1853

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Description: Fishing boats, this is a keyblock print with hand coloring

Date:

Publisher:

Title: Fashionable Hozuki (Chinese lantern plants) Rehearsing (Ryukô hozuki no keiko, 流行ほうづきのけいこ)

Description: Chinese lantern plant petals rehearsing music

Date: c. 1840

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

Title: Bubbles Likened to the Heroes of the Suikoden

Description: An entertainer blowing bubbles for children that become characters from the Suikoden

Date: c. 1841

Publisher:

Series: Fashionable Gourds of the Floating World (Ryûkô ukiyo hyôtan, 流行うきよひやうたん)

Title: Mongaku Pounded by Cold Water (Mongaku hiya uchimasen, もんがくひやうちません)

Description: Mongaku under the waterfall

Date: 1843-1846 (censor Muramatsu Genroku)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Another state of the above print

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Gourds, Catfish & a horse dressed as people wrestling, c

Description: Gourds, catfish and a horse dressed as people wrestling

Date: c. 1846-1847

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Kuniyoshi - (fan) klk

Title: Six Popular Amusing Compositions (Ryûkô rokkisen, 流行六戲撰)

Description: Trades people as parodies of the six immortal poets (rokkasen).  In the left lower corner is Mame no Komachi (まめの小町), a parody of Ono no Komachi as a bean seller.

Date: 1842-1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei 

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi), seven kabuki masks, , c

Series: Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi)

Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following actors:

 

1. Ôtani Hiroemon V as daitengu (big demon)
2. 
Ichkawa Ebizô (Danjûrô VII) as Momotarô
3. 
Seki Sanjûrô III as kotengu (small demon)
4.  Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ebisu
5.  Sawamura Sôjûrô V as shôjô (drinker)
6.  Ichimura Uzaemon XII as yasa otoko (elegant man)
7.  Matsumoto Kôshirô VI
as kitsune (fox)

Date: c. 1842

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

Kuniyoshi - (fan) Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi), seven kabuki masks, , c

Series: Popular Faces of the Present Day (Ryûkô menzukushi)

Description: Seven noh and kagura masks resembling the following actors: 

 

1.  Unknown actor as kijo (female demon)
2.  Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kintarô
3.  Nakamura Bungorô II as gedô (jerk)
4.  Osagawa Tsuneyo IV as okina (old man)
5.  Iwai Shijaku (Hanshirô IIV) as onna (woman)
6.  Ichikawa Ebizô V (Danjûrô VII) as Ryûjin (dragon god)
7.  Onoe Tamizô II as Otafuku

Date: c. 1842

Publisher: Ise-ya Sôemon

Description: A spinning-top performance by Takezawa Toji (竹澤 藤次)

Date: c. 1844

Publisher: Ise-ya Soemon

Description:

Date:

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Description: Crabs on a rock

Date: 8th month of 1853

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei 

 

NOTE: This marugame uchiwa shaped print is signed Igusa Kuniyoshi (井草国芳).  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Description: Swimming goldfish

Date:

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

 

NOTE: This marugame uchiwa shaped print is signed Igusa Kuniyoshi (井草国芳).  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Description: A plant with an armor butterfly (yoroi chô, よろひてふ) and a bamboo gentian butterfly (sasarindo, 笹りんどう)

Date: c. 1832

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

NOTE: This print is signed Ichiyu hitsu (一勇筆), which can be read as “one brave brush”.  The bamboo gentian butterfly has the Minamoto mon on its wings.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. 

 

“Robinson” refers to series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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