The Twelve Months
(Jûni tsuki no uchi, 十二月の内)
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei
c. 1831
This series is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. |
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First month (正月) |
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Second month (二月) |
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Third month (三月) |
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Fourth
month (四月) NOTE: Of the illustrated images, this is the only one with a
publisher’s seal or a kiwame
seal. |
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Fifth
month (五月) |
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Sixth
month (六月) |
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Seventh month (七月) |
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Eighth
month (八月) |
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Nineth
month (九月) |
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Tenth
month (十月) |
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Eleventh month (十一月) |
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Twelfth
month (十二月) |
Some of the prints have a continuation of the image from another
print, indicating that they were intended to be diptychs. |