Miscellaneous comic series, Part II

 

 

 

Series: Imaginary Summer Scenes (Mitate natsu keshiki, 見立夏景色)

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Nakamura Kanjaku (中村翫雀)

Description: Actor Nakamura Kanjaku with goldfish and the Nakamura kabuki theater in the background

Date: c. 1841-1842

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

 

Series: Imaginary Summer Scenes (Mitate natsu keshiki, 見立夏景色)

Robinson: Not listed

Title: Ichimura Kakitsu (市村家橘)

Description: Actor Ichimura Kakitsu with the Ichimura kabuki theater in the background

Date: c. 1841-1842

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

 

Title: Funny Nonsense (可樂戯言)

Description: Kato Kiyomasa with his katakama yari playing with tigers and Daikoku and Ebisu wrestling

Date: c. 1831-1835

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

 

 

Title: Funny Nonsense (可樂戯言)

Description: Palanquin bearers struggle uphill (high geta on roof may mean passenger is supposed to be priest-pilgrim climbing) and a parody of Han Zin (Kanshin) crawling between legs

Date: c. 1831-1835

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

 

 

Series: Moon, Snow, and Flowers, Poems of the Four Seasons (Tsuki yuki hana, shiki no nagame, 月雪花四季詠)

Title: Moon

Description: Four people with four poems

Date: 1849-1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this series.

 

Series: Moon, Snow, and Flowers, Poems of the Four Seasons (Tsuki yuki hana, shiki no nagame, 月雪花四季詠)

Title: Flowers

Description: Four people with four poems

Date: 1849-1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

 

“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). 

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