Surimono of Women,

Part II

	Series: A Series of Five on Shellfish Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi) Number on print: 1 Description: Beauty standing next to a large anchor holding a stick and a fish Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.a.4.1
	Series: A Series of Five on Shellfish Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi) Number on print: 2 Description: A squatting beauty holding down an octopus Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.a.4.2 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	Series: A Series of Five on Shellfish Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi) Number on print: 3 Description: A beauty with a wooden stick in her hand and a young girl at her side Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.a.4.3
	Series: A Series of Five on Shellfish Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi) Number on print: 4 Description: A kneeling beauty digging for shells with a basket at her side Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.a.4.4
	Series: A Series of Five on Shellfish Gathering (Shiohi goban no uchi) Number on print: 5 Description: A standing beauty tying her belt with a scythe leaning against a basket at her feet Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.a.4.5
Description: Two beauties on the beach at Enoshima Size: Shikishiban diptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Schaap: 2.c.4 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
Description: Teahouse waitress (right) and geisha (left) by the gates of Okido with a view of Takanawa Bay and Mt. Fuji Size: Two Shikishiban from a larger composition (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Early 1830s Poem: 柳桜亭 桜貝吹よる風の手ふりにも ゆかしく匂ふ袖かうらなみ Schaap: 2.c.6
	Description: One of the daughters of the dragon king Ryûjin who lives in then bottom of the sea Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1832 Schaap: 2.d.1.1
	Description: A beauty hanging a scroll painting in a tokonoma (decorative alcove in a home) Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1832 Schaap: 2.d.1.2
	Description: A beauty watching a toy snake Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1833 or 1839 Schaap: 2.d.1.3
	Description: Two beauties, one inspecting her hair with two mirrors Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1831 Schaap: 2.d.1.4 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
	Description: A seated oiran with her kimono spread out around her with a caldron behind her Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1835 Schaap: 2.d.1.5
	Description: A geisha squatting by the balustrade of a veranda Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: 2.d.1.6 NOTE: Schaap suggests that this may be a portrait of the kabuki actor Iwai Hanshirô VI. The figure hidden behind the shoji wearing the kiku (chrysanthemum) mon may be Onoe Kikugorô III. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for the image.
	Description: Courtesan in training (shinzô) kneeling by a pile of cushions on which a large ox is resting, in an allusion to a model of an ox (nade-ushi) stroked for good luck Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1829 Schaap: 2.d.1.8
Description: A woman kneeling in a covered boat with two women on a dock at night Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830s Schaap: The left sheet is listed as 2.d.1.9
	Description: A girl smoking a pipe on New Year’s Day Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: 2.d.1.10 NOTE: It is not certain that this is the surimono described by Schaap. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for the image.
	Description: A geisha and a waitress (nakai) with a lantern outside an imposing gate Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: Not listed
	Title: The Oak Barrier Garden at Noda in Shimosa Province (Shimosa Noda Kashiwazeki no Sono) Description: A geisha folding an origami superimposed on a on a battledore Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: Not listed
Description: Seated courtesan with a kokyu bow, shamisen and koto Size: 20.2 x 30.6 centimeters Date: Schaap: Not listed
Title: Fancy Goods Store Changing its Name to Tochiya Tochibei (小間物問屋 栃木中町 栃屋栃兵衛) Other text: Komamono ya kôkoku Description: Store with women admiring the merchandise Size: 19.4 x 53.5 cm. Date: c. 1852 Censor: Fuku (伏稟) Schaap: Not listed Note: This is an advertising print (hikifuda) and not a true surimono.

“Schaap” refers to listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998).

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