The Pride of Edo: Going into Modern Service

(Edo jiman tôsei ji-ire, 江戸自慢程好仕入)

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

1847-1848

This series of prints has large half-length images of beautiful women with insets of dramatic characters. It is listed as number 107 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961), where it is identified as consisting of five prints. The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. All the prints bear the seals of the censors Hama and Kinugasa. I am grateful to Ward Pieters and Robert Pryor for assisting with this series.

	Beauty: Beauty with tsuzumi (small hourglass-shaped wooden drum) Fabric: Yoshino kanto (よしのかんとう) Inset: Kitsune Tadanobu
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	Beauty: Young woman cleaning a pipe Fabric: Haguzome (はぐ染め) with a pattern imitates clothing made from recycled paper Inset:
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	Beauty: Beauty going into service Fabric: Shôbûkawa (しやうぶかは) with a pattern of horses Inset:
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	Beauty: Fabric: Gobanjima (ごばん縞) with a go board pattern from the House of Ume (Ume-ya) Inset:
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	Beauty: Beauty with umbrella Fabric: Teppo-shibori (てっぽうしぼり), a tie-died fabric having a pattern resembling the sparks from a Japanese matchlock gun (teppô) Inset: Kanpei with his gun
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