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	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 Zodiac 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-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)	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
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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