Triptychs and diptychs of
beautiful women,
Part IV
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Title: Three
Important Requsities: Young Women, Bonds, Sake (Sanbyoshi musume kenzake, 三拍子娘券酒) Description: Three
beauties playing kitsune ken Date: 1847-1852 Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei |
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Title: An Up-to-date
Parlor in Imado at Night (Tôsei Imado no yo-zashiki, 當盛今戸の夜ざしき) Description: Four beauties Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state with a
solid-colored cartouche. |
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Title: Cherry
Blossom Viewing on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hanami, 隅田川花見) Description:
Flower-viewing by the Date: 1847 - 1851 Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above design. |
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Title: Playing in a
Garden (Oniwa asobi, おにわ あそび) Description: Women fishing Date: 1851 (censors
Mera and Watanabe) Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this later edition of the above design. The white rectangles in the
right lower corners of two sheets indicate that Izumi-ya
Ichibei is a secondary publisher. The seals of Sôshû-ya
Yohei, the original publisher, were crudely replaced with seals of Izumi-ya Ichibei. |
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Another state of the above design also published
by Izumi-ya Ichibei |
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Title: Selection of
Cut Flowers (Mitate sashibana, 見立さし花) Description: Women in
front of flower arrangements Date: 1843-1846
(censor Muramatsu Genroku) Publisher: Iwamoto Kyûbei I am grateful to Paul Steier for this image. |
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Two sheets from a later edition of the above design published by
Mori-ya Jihei and dated
the 4th month of 1854
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Title: Courtesans
with Melting Spring Snow (春の雪解続妾会) Description: Three women
on a balcony Date: 12th
month of 1855 Publisher: Ise-Yoshi |
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Another state of the above
design |
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Title: Modern
Comparison of Beauties (Tôsei bijin awase, 當盛美人合) Description: Three women
visiting a shrine Date: c. 1830 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei NOTE: The center sheet is trimmed and from a different
state with green foliage and a green tabletop. |
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Title: Charcoal Brazier
(春廼海) Description: Beauties on a
verandah with a hibachi Date: 12th
month of 1855 Publisher: |
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Title: None Description: Beauties in boats
beside the Ryogoku Bridge watching fireworks Date: 1849 (censors
Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi |
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Title: View of
Enoshima and Fuji from Shichirigahama (Shichiri gahama yori Enoshima no tokei, 七里ヶ浜より江の島乃遠景) Description: Beauties and
children on the beach with Date: 1847-1852 Publisher: Tsuta-ya Umejirô |
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Title: Untitled, but
known as "Enoshima Môde" Description: Beauties and
children on the beach with Date: 1842-1846
(censor Fukatsu Ihei) Publisher: Maru-Ichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Another state
of the above design. |
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I am grateful to
Frederik Balhuizen and Josta Klaassen for this alternate state published by
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi. |
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Title: A Distant
View of the Sumida River (隅田川之遠景) Description: Three
beauties on a terrace overlooking the Date: 12th
month of 1854 Publisher: Yamada-ya Shôjirô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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I am grateful
to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above design. |
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Title: Schematic Map
of the Grounds of the Ichirenji Temple and Masaki
Inari Shrine (Kôshû Ichirenji
chinai Masaki Inari no ryaku,
甲州一蓮寺地内 正木稲荷之略図) Description: Standing
beauties with Mt. Fuji and landscape in the distance Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Two sheets from
another state of the above design. The
seals of the publisher and censors are the same. |
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Title: None Description: Women and
children with silhouettes of buildings Date: 1843-1850
(censors Mera and Murata on left and center sheets and Muramatsu Genroku on
right sheet) Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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This triptych, showing the
theater of the juggler Yanagawa Icchôsai at Okuyama
in Asakusa, uses some of the same woodblocks as the preceding triptych. The publisher’s and censors’ seals are the
same. |
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Title: Description: A young lord,
attended by court ladies Date: Intercalary 2nd month of 1852* Publisher: |
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Title: Description: Women in an Iris
garden Date: 5th month of 1852 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Title: Bustling Night Crowds on the
Third Day of the Year of the Monkey (Mitsu no saru ya no nigiwai, 三ツの猿夜の賑ひ) Description: Women with dogs, a
child and New Year shop displays Date: 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Title: The Inner
Chamber–first performance of the new year (Ôoku no hikizome, 御奥の弾初) Description: An elderly
blind musician playing the koto for an
audience of beautiful women Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei I am grateful to Elaine Boatin
for supplying information about this triptych. |
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Title: New Year
Felicitations (Haru no kotobuki, 春の寿) Description: Women
watching New Year’s dancers Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Title: Theater
Performance for Shogun’s Harem (Oooku shibai) of the kabuki
play Sugawara denju
tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) with Nakamura Kanemon IV as Matsu-o-maru (center) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sakura-maru (right) Date: 1850-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu with shita-uri seal) Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke |
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*An extra month
inserted between the 2nd and 3rd months in the same
manner as an extra day is added to a leap year
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