Polyptychs of miscellaneous subjects of four or more sheets

Description: Boys parading on the shore at sunset

Date: c. 1840

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Title: None

Description: The Sannô Matsuri parade

Date: 1844 (censor Tanaka)

Publishers: Nuno-Kichi (seal name 布吉) and Murata-ya Tetsu (seal name 村鉄)

NOTE: The Sannô Matsuri (山王祭) festival is held in mid June, only in even-numbered years. Each sheet is about 10 by 7 inches (25 by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor and Thalia Graeff for this image.

Warriors from left: Yamagata Saburohei Masakage (山縣三郎兵衛昌景), Takeda Sama-no-suke Nobushige (武田佐馬介源信繁), Takeda Hosshô-in Harunobu Nyûdô Shingen (武田晴信入道信玄), Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki Nyûdô Dôkisai (山本勘助入道道鬼蔡晴幸), and Kosaka Danjô-no-jô Masanobu (高坂 弾正定 昌信)

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

Date: c. 1845

NOTE: Each panel represents a seated champion on the Takeda side in the Kawanakajima campaign with biographical text above by Shôtei Kinsui.  The top of each print is shaded off with Takeda mon reserved.  Three of these panels are listed as S95f.5 in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982).  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Panels from another state of the above polyptych without the green ground, also published by Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

Another state of the preceding polyptych with purple shading on top published by Miyakozawa (seal name Tôzawa, 都沢)

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