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 |
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Comic Paper Lantern Chûshingura (Dôke Chôchingura)
|
1830 |
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Ghost Stories: Night
Procession of the Hundred Demons (Kaidan hyakki yagyô)
|
1830 |
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Comical Chûshingura (fan prints) (Dôke Chûshingura) Image added 3/7/25 |
1830 |
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Clowning Around (Dôke) |
1839-1842 |
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A
Set of Goldfish (Kingyo tsukushi) |
1839-1842 |
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The Monsters’ Chûshingura
(Bakemono Chushingura) |
1839-1842 |
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Twelve Months of Buffoonery (Dôke jûnitsuki) |
1839-1842 |
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A Collection of Comical
Depictions of Plays (Dôke
kyogen zukushi) |
1839-1842 |
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A Collection of Comical Warriors (Dôke musha zukushi) |
1839-1842 |
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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 |
|
c. 1840 |
|
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The Hundred Poets (Hyaku-nin isshu) |
1840-1842 |
32 |
A Collection of Winter
Cherries (chûban) (Hôzuki
zukushi) |
1840-1842 |
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An Assortment of Thunder Gods (Kaminari zukushi) |
c. 1840-1842 |
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Anthropomorphized Octopuses for the 53 Stations of the Tôkaidô (horizontal chûban) (Tako-no-nyûdô Gojûsan-tsugi) |
c. 1840-1842 |
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Fashionable Octopus Games (Ryûkô tako no asobi) |
c. 1840-1842 |
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Comic Twelve Signs (vertical chûban) (Dôke jû-ni-shi) |
1841 |
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Shank’s Mare on the Kisokaidô (Kisokaidô zoku hizakurige) |
c. 1841 |
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Cat Homophones (Neko no ateji) |
1842 |
196 |
Raccoon Dogs (Tanuki) |
1842 |
209 |
1842 |
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A Collection of Humorous
Short Poems (chûtanzakuban) (Kyôka zukushi) |
c. 1842 |
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Moral Philosophy Illustrated for Children (chûban) (Shingaku osana etoki) |
1842-1843 |
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Crazy Thoughts from Takezawa Toji’s Imagination (spinning tops) |
c. 1843 |
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Comic Sweet Corn (chûban) (Dôke tômorokoshi) |
1842-1846 |
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Series of Fashionable Comic Spinning-tops (Ryûkô dôke koma zukushi) |
1844 |
195 |
More Fun with Raccoon Dogs
(Aratamete tanuki no tawamure)
|
1844-1846 |
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Eight Successful Plays Performed by Bats (Yatsu atari dôke kômori) |
1844-1846 |
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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 |
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 |
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The Tennô Festival (Tennô
matsuri) |
1847-1850 |
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Comic Parts for the Twelve
Zodiac Signs (Dôke miburi jû-ni-shi) |
1848 |
180 |
Witty Work for Silhouettes (Sono omokage hodoyoku utsushie) |
1848-1851 |
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100 Pleasant Stories (Hyaku iro-banashi) |
1849-1851 |
202 |
Series of Caricatures of
Catfish (drawings) (Dôke namazu
zukushi) |
1849-1851 |
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A Collection of Warrior Rebuses (Musha zukushi
hanjimono) |
1849-1851 |
|
Eight Characteristics of Drinkers (Yômi happai) |
1849-1852 |
|
1849-1852 |
|
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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-jû-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) Image added 4/1/25 (end of Part I) |
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-jû-san tsugi) |
1860 |
224 |
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Prints of wigs and headgear Images added
3/29/25 |
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Miscellaneous comic series Images added
3/30/25 (Part II) |
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110, 183, and 189 |
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Toy print Image
added 3/31/25 (at end) |
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183 |
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Fan prints of humorous and
miscellaneous subjects Images added 4/1/25 (at end) |
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201 |
*Series number in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson, 1961, CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN
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