Acrobats, top spinners, magicians, and puppeteers

Series	Date	Robinson
Untitled series of children performing firemen's acrobatics	c. 1837
Series of Fashionable Comic Spinning-tops (comic chûban) (Ryûkô dôke koma zukushi)	c. 1843	195
Premier Spinning Top Tricks by Takezawa Toji (Ichiryû kyokugoma Takezawa Toji)	c. 1843	208
Crazy Thoughts from Takezawa Toji’s Imagination (comic)	c. 1843
Takezawa Toji	c. 1843
Flowers of Edo – Tip-top Spinning Tricks	c. 1844
Performances by Okuyama Denji in the precinct of Asakusa Kannon Temple (Asakusa Kanzeon jinai oite kyoku Okuyama Denji)	c. 1844
Yôrô Takigorô Walking on Sword Blades (Yôrô Takigorô tsurugi no hawatari)	c. 1844
Three Highlights of Great Spinning Top Performances (Sankyoku ukare no ôgoma)	c. 1850
Hayatake Torakichi	1857	214
Miscellaneous prints of acrobats, top spinners, magicians, and puppeteers		114

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

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