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Title: Scene at Toeizan (Toto Toeizen no zu, 東都東叡山の圖)
Description: Three ladies and
a child in ornate robes admiring the cherry blossoms that surround them
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Wakasa-ya
Uhei
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.
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Title: None
Description: Three bijin on the engawa of a house overlooking a water-garden with a goldfish pond
Date: 1851 (censors
Mera and Watanabe)
Publisher: Mikawa-ya
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Title: View of the Wide Sumida River
Description:
Date: 1846-1852
Publisher:
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Title: Snow Cat: The
First Snow of the Year
Description: Court ladies
showing a giant snow cat to a young prince Genji after the first snow
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya
Tôbei
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Another state of the above triptych
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Title: Crowds at the
Horse Riding Stunts at Ryogôku (Ryôgoku
daikyokuba no nigiwai, 両ごく大 馬の)
Description:
Date: 1851 (censors
Mera and Watanabe)
Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya
Masagorô
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Title: Autumn
Evening Scene (Aki no yukei, 秋の夕景)
Description: Three ladies in
ornate robes in the light of a quarter-moon among the autumn plants
Date: 1847-1848
(censors Hama and Kinugasa)
Publisher: Kita-ya
Magobei
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these two
alternate states of the right sheet from the above triptych. They may have been intended as stand-alone
single sheet prints.
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Title:
Description: Three women
alighting from a covered boat (left) onto a pier, to ascend some stone steps
(right), a small group of plovers flying overhead
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Sawa-ya
Kôchichi
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Title: Musume On-memie no zu
Description: Presentation
of a robe to a young princess in a stately room with blossoming cherries
outside
Date: 1846-1852
Publisher: Ebi-ya
Rinnosuke
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Title: 柳鴻朝恵方
Description: Three women
at Benten shrine at night with a fence behind them and a blossoming plum tree
in the background. The fence is
decorated with snake placards, which are offerings to Benten.
Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata)
Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya
Tôbei
NOTE: Since the
censors’ seals date this triptych to 1847-1850, the snake placards cannot be
a reference to the year of the snake, but must refer to Benten, to whom
snakes were sacred.
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above design.
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Title:
Description: Women
visiting a shrine at night
Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu)
Publisher: No seal
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Title: Modern
Choices (Mitate tosei,
見立当世)
Description: A modern view
of the four classes, from right to left: shi
(samurai, 士), ko (craftsmen, 工), no
(farmers, 農), and sho (merchants, 商)
Date: c. 1831
Publisher: Ômi-ya
Heihachi
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Original drawing for the right sheet of the
above triptych
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Title:
Description: Three women
standing by a veranda
Date: c. 1835
Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon
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Two sheets from other states of the above
triptych
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Title: Ochasho Yamamoto (御茶所 山本)
Description: Woman in front of Ochasho
Yamamoto, Yamamoto’s famous tea warehouse
Date:
1843-1846 (censor Muramatsu Genroku)
Publisher: Unidentified
seal:
NOTE: The company’s mon
was, and still is, the character 嘉, meaning auspicious, under a
mountain. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: Candy Shop at
Sagacho Hukagawa Bridge (深川佐賀町菓子船橋屋)
Description:
Date: 1842 or
earlier
Publisher:
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Title: Untitled
Description: Women in front of a store
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: Kaidômaru eboshi gi no zu (怪童丸烏帽子着之図, The Capping Ceremony of Kaidômaru)
Description: Kaidômaru
(Kinatarô) in the ceremony celebrating his coming-of-age, where he is granted
the right to wear the black-lacquered headgear carried by the lady on the
left
Date: 1842-1846
(censor Murata Sahei)
Publisher: Takahashi-ya
Takakichi
NOTE: This triptych is listed as T90 in in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, NY, 1982)
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Title: The First
Sunrise on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hatsuhinode)
Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome)
Publisher: Ebi-ya
Rinnosuke
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Another state of the above design
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Title: None
Description: Three women
with geese flying above and descending in the background
Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Maru-ya
Seijirô
NOTE: This triptych
may refer to the eight views, one of which is descending geese (rakugan).
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Title: View of
Yanagishima in Spring (Yanagishima no
haru [no] kei)
Description: Three women
and a boy by a stream with geese
Date: 1st
month of 1860
Publisher: Kiku-ya
Ichibei
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Title: None
Description: Aizuri-e
triptych of beautiful women with flowers, trees, and lanterns in the
background
Date: c. 1840
Publisher: Wakasa-ya
Yoichi
NOTE: This triptych is
signed Chô-ô-rô Kuniyoshi ga (朝櫻楼 国芳 画).
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet
from another state of the above design.
It shows Hana… of the Ogiya (扇屋内花…).
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Title: Three Women Performing a Ritual with Sashes (三婦久對一配機嫌, San fukutai itsu bai kigen)
Description:
Three women performing the obi’iwai (帯祝い) ritual, a traditional ceremony in which a cotton
sash is tied around a pregnant woman’s abdomen to protect the baby
Date:
1846-1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)
Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô
I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information
about this triptych.
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Title: Spring Night Scene (Harunoyoru geshiki, 春の夜げしき)
Description:
Three women with dogs and child
Date:
c. 1845-1846
Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
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Title: Three Women Tipsy on Toso (Toso kigen
san'nin namayoi, 屠蘇機嫌三人生酔)
Description:
Three woman who drank too much toso, a
spiced sake often consumed at New Year
Date:
1843-1846 (censor Kinugasa Fusajirô)
Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
NOTE: The
seal of another publisher was clumsily removed from the left lower corner of
each sheet. I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this image.
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