Comic and Miscellaneous Prints

 

Comic prints are known as giga (戯画) or giga-e (戯画絵), and playful pictures are called asobi-e (遊び絵).  Several additional comic prints may be found in the harimaze section.

 

Series

Date

Robinson*

Caricatures of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden (Kyôga Suikoden gôketsu ippyaku hachinin)

1830

Comic Paper Lantern Chûshingura (Dôke Chôchingura)

1830

 

Ghost Stories: Night Procession of the Hundred Demons (Kaidan hyakki yagyô)

1830

 

Comical Chûshingura (fan prints) (Dôke Chûshingura)

1830

 

Clowning Around (Dôke)

1839-1842

 

A Set of Goldfish (Kingyo tsukushi)

1839-1842

 

The Monsters’ Chûshingura (Bakemono Chushingura)

1839-1842

 

Twelve Months of Buffoonery (Dôke jûnitsuki)

1839-1842

 

A Collection of Comical Depictions of Plays (Dôke kyogen zukushi)

1839-1842

 

A Collection of Comical Warriors (Dôke musha zukushi)

1839-1842

 

Genuine Instruction for Children in Mad Pictures (Jitsu go-kyô kyôgwa dôgaku)

1840

118

Comic Comparisons of the Koma Pieces in Shôgi (Koma kurabe shôgi no tawamure)

c. 1840

188

Fun with Fukurokuji’s Head (Fukurokuju atama no tawamure)

1840

194

Brother Pictures for Comparison (fan prints) (E-kyôdai  awase kagami)

c. 1840

Untitled comic chûban series Series added 11/25/24

c. 1840

 

The Hundred Poets (Hyaku-nin isshu)

1840-1842

32

A Collection of Winter Cherries (chûban) (Hôzuki zukushi)

1840-1842

 

An Assortment of Thunder Gods (Kaminari zukushi)

c. 1840-1842

 

Anthropomorphized Octopuses for the 53 Stations of the Tôkaidô (horizontal chûban) (Tako-no-nyûdô Gojûsan-tsugi)

c. 1840-1842

 

Fashionable Octopus Games (Ryûkô tako no asobi)

c. 1840-1842

 

Comic Twelve Signs (vertical chûban) (Dôke jû-ni-shi)

1841

 

Shank’s Mare on the Kisokaidô (Kisokaidô zoku hizakurige)

c. 1841

 

Cat Homophones (Neko no ateji)

1842

196

Raccoon Dogs (Tanuki)

1842

209

Tengu 

1842

 

A Collection of Humorous Short Poems (chûtanzakuban) (Kyôka zukushi)

c. 1842

 

Moral Philosophy Illustrated for Children (chûban) (Shingaku osana etoki)

1842-1843

 

Crazy Thoughts from Takezawa Toji’s Imagination (spinning tops)

c. 1843

Comic Sweet Corn (chûban) (Dôke tômorokoshi)

1842-1846

 

Series of Fashionable Comic Spinning-tops (Ryûkô dôke koma zukushi)

1844

195

More Fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure)

1844-1846

 

Eight Successful Plays Performed by Bats (Yatsu atari dôke kômori)

1844-1846

 

Moral Philosophy Illustrated for Children (chûtanzakuban) (Shingaku osana etoki)

1845

115

Fukusuke Fitted to One's Thoughts (Omou ni kanai Fukusuke)

c. 1845

177

Popular Raccoon Dogs as... (Dôke tanuki no...)

1846

Characters from the Wastepaper Basket (Jimbutsu kami kuzu kago)

1846-1848

199

Daruma’s Buffoonery (Dôke Daruma asobi)

1847

191

Fashionable Cat Frolics (Ryûkô neko no tawamure)

1847

197

Actors’ Caricatures Scribbled on Walls

1847-1848

179 and 182

Imitations of the Twelve Months (Miburi ju-ni omoi gwatsu)

1847-1848

211

Composite Pictures (Yose-e)

1847-1848

Treasury of Humor Modeled by Toads (Gama-tehon hyôkingura)

1847-1848

85

Kuniyoshi's Parody on the Samurai's Loyalty (Gishi no seichû Yoshi ga tawamure)

1847-1848

 

The Tennô Festival (Tennô matsuri)

1847-1850

 

Comic Parts for the Twelve Signs (Dôke miburi jû-ni-shi)

1848

180

Witty Work for Silhouettes (Sono omokage hodoyoku utsushie)

1848-1851

100 Pleasant Stories (Hyaku iro-banashi)

1849-1851

202

Series of Caricatures of Catfish (drawings) (Dôke namazu zukushi)

1849-1851

 

A Collection of Warrior Rebuses (Musha zukushi hanjimono)

1849-1851

 

Eight Characteristics of Drinkers (Yômi happai)

1849-1852

 

Untitled series of the Chûshingura performed by bats

1849-1852

 

Modern Style Set of the Provinces in Edo Brocade (Kôto nishiki imayô kuni-zukushi)

1852

171

Six Fashionable Female Poetic Immortals (Fûryû onna rokkasen)

1853

Fifty-three Stations on Shank’s Mare (Hizakurige go--san eki)

1854

204

Collection of Humorous Scenes from Joruri Drama (Dôke jôruri zukushi)

1855

215

Comic Twelve Signs (horizontal chûban) (Dôke jû-ni-shi)

1855

Modern Select Dolls (Tôsei mitate ningyô no uchi)

1855-1856

185

Moral Guidelines for Good and Naughty Apprentices (Kyôkun zenaku kozô zoroe)

1857

Illustrated Examples of Mad Sketches (Kyôgwa e-tehon)

1859

222

Fifty-three Post-stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô go--san tsugi)

1860

224

 

Faces That Can Be Inverted

 

 

Prints of wigs and headgear

 

 

Miscellaneous prints of the game of ken

 

 

Miscellaneous comic series

 

110, 183, and 189

Comic and miscellaneous individual prints

 

 

Comic and miscellaneous triptychs and diptychs

 

 

Toy print

 

 

Giga (many small pictures on one sheet)

 

 

Prints of the seven gods of good luck

 

183

Fan prints of humorous and miscellaneous subjects

 

201

 

*Series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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