Miscellaneous series of beautiful women
Prints of beautiful women (bijin) are known as bijin-ga. These prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this section.
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Series:
Amusing Select Comparisons of Birds and Trees (Tawamure mitate chô-mokuawase) Robinson:
158 Title: Description:
Beauty with cat; human hand with wings in inset Date: c.
1845 Publisher:
Unidentified |
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Series: Famous
Views of Edo Mirrored by Beautiful Girls ( Robinson:
144 Title: Mukôjima (向島) Description:
Date: c.
1833 Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei (Kansendô) |
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Series:
Famous Views of Edo Mirrored by Beautiful Girls ( Robinson:
144 Title: Description:
Date: c.
1833 Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei (Kansendô) |
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Series:
Moonlight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto tsuki no meisho) Robinson:
87 Title:
Moon at Description:
Beauty with cat Date: c.
1840 Publisher:
Unidentified |
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Another state of the above
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Series:
Moonlight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto tsuki no meisho) Robinson:
87 Title: Description:
Courtesan on parade in her Spring finery with a view of the Sumidagawa behind her Date: c.
1840 Publisher:
Unidentified |
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Series:
Comparison of Modern Beauties for the Five Festivals (Tôsei bijin awase gosekku
no uchi) Robinson:
Not listed Title: Kiku no tsuki (菊月) Chrysanthemum
Festival Description:
Date: Publisher:
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Comparison of Modern Beauties for the Five Festivals (Tôsei bijin awase gosekku
no uchi) Robinson:
Not listed Title: Tanabata (七夕) Star Festival or
Seventh Night on July 7 Description:
Date: c.
1845 Publisher:
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Sundial of Modern Tradesmen (Tôsei akindo hidokei, 当世商人日時計) Robinson:
Not listed Time: Tradesman:
Flower seller Beauty:
Woman brushing her teeth Date:
1821-1823 Publisher:
Tsumura-ya Saburobei |
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Series:
Sundial of Modern Tradesmen (Tôsei akindo hidokei, 当世商人日時計) Robinson:
Not listed Time: Tradesman:
Fishmonger with a dog Beauty:
Woman playing with a cat Date:
1821-1823 Publisher:
Tsumura-ya Saburobei |
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Series:
Sundial of Modern Tradesmen (Tôsei akindo hidokei, 当世商人日時計) Robinson:
Not listed Time: Tradesman:
Water seller Beauty:
Woman writing Date:
1821-1823 Publisher:
Tsumura-ya Saburobei |
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Series:
Modern Comparison of Beauties (Tôsei bijin awase) Robinson:
Not listed, but another series having the same title is listed as number 154 Title: Description:
Date: Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tobei |
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Series:
Beauties Mirrored in the Forms of Flowers (Sugata hana bijin kagami) Robinson:
96 Title: Description:
Study of the courtesan Toyo-oka from the house of
Okamoto-ya Date: ca.
1836 Publisher:
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Series:
The Four Seasons (Shiki no uchi, 四季之内) Robinson:
Not listed Title:
Autumn (Aki) Description:
Beauty on a boat under a bridge Date: 1843 Publisher:
Nuno-Kichi |
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Series:
The Four Seasons (Shiki no uchi, 四季之内) Robinson:
Not listed Title:
Winter (Fuyu,
冬) Description:
Beauty in the snow Date: 1843 Publisher:
Nuno-Kichi |
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Series:
Untitled Robinson:
Not listed Description:
Beauty seated in a kotatsu
watching the snow Date: c.
1824 Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Kichibei |
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Series:
Untitled Robinson:
Not listed Description:
Miyatogawa Date: c.
1824 Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Kichibei |
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Series:
Untitled Robinson:
Not listed Description:
The courtesan Monhiko of the Ômi-ya
House in front of a paper lantern inscribed “Ômi-ya
Monhiko” Date: c.
1824 Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Kichibei |
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Series:
Untitled series of the five elements (gogyô) Robinson:
Not listed Element:
Earth (Tsuchi,
土) Description:
Standing beauty Date: Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) NOTE: The five
elements are wood (ki), fire (hi), earth (tsuchi), metal (kane)
and water (mizu). They do not represent the modern scientific
concept of elements as fundamental substances out of which all things are
composed. Rather, they represent categories
and concepts to which all things can be likened and by which analysed in a
spiritual or philosophical manner. |
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Another state of the above
print |
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Series:
Untitled series of the five elements (gogyô) Robinson:
Not listed Element:
Metal (Kin, 金) Description:
Fulling silk Date: Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) |
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Series:
Series of Famous Views of the Provinces Illustrated (Shokoku meisho zusho) Robinson:
1 Province: Description:
Beauty cooling off with a fan Date: c.
1850 Publisher:
NOTE: A prints,
such as this, that is printed entirely or primarily in blue is known as an aizuri-e. |
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Series: Series
of Famous Views of the Provinces Illustrated (Shokoku meisho zusho) Robinson:
1 Province: Description:
Beauty with pipe reading Date: c.
1850 Publisher:
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Series:
Series of Famous Views of the Provinces Illustrated (Shokoku meisho zusho) Robinson:
1 Province: Description:
Standing beauty Date: c.
1850 Publisher:
Shimizu-ya |
‘Robinson’ indicates listing in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson, 1961,
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