Fashionable Cat Frolics
(Ryûkô neko no tawamure, 流行猫の戯)
Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi
1847
This series of unknown size shows actors as cats. Kuniyoshi was especially fond of cats and inserted them in many of his prints. This series is listed as number 197 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. |
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Title: Michiyuki neko yanagi sakari no tsukikage Description: |
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Title: Kagamiya na zôri haji no dan Description: |
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Title: Umegae mugen no mane
(梅が枝無間の真似) Description: A parody (mitate) of a scene in the fourth act
of the kabuki play, Simple
Chronicle of the Fortunes of the Heike and Genji (Hiragana seisuiki). In the play, Genta
Kagesue strikes a stone water basin and is showered
with gold coins, which are thrown by his concealed mother. |
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Title: Tamoto funki kogoto zeme no dan Description: |
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Title: Oshun Denbei Mi
no kusasa sakari no irodoki Description: Two cats
representing kabuki actors Nakamura
Utaemon IV and Onoe Baikô as the lovers Denpei and
Oshun. The object in the right lower
corner is a mirror on a stand. |
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The cartouche in this series is in the form of a gold coin, or a
form of money intermediate between a coin and an ingot. Pictured to the left is an ôban from 1592
(in the Tensho period). It is 74% gold. The small denomination in this shape is
called a koban. The terms ôban and koban are also
used for large and small ukiyo-e prints, respectively. |
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