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Brocade Pictures for Moral Education, No. 12

ContributorsToshichika (Artist) / 年親 (Artist) / Toshimine (Artist) / 年峯 (Artist) / Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / 月岡芳年 (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor))

Created1883 to 1888

Description

A young girl comes to the assistance of a wounded soldier who is hiding in a barn. The text on the left, 少女の仁心士君子も及ばさる所あり, roughly translates to "the kindness of a little girl is sometimes better than what even a virtuous man can…

A young girl comes to the assistance of a wounded soldier who is hiding in a barn. The text on the left, 少女の仁心士君子も及ばさる所あり, roughly translates to "the kindness of a little girl is sometimes better than what even a virtuous man can do." Part of a Meiji-period series of didactic prints.

Yubin Hochi Shinbun Series, #466

ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Hori Ei (Contributor) / 渡辺彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)

Created1875

DescriptionThis print depicts a woman in a graveyard being rescued by a policeman. The attempted rapist (right) flees from the scene. It is from a series of illustrated sensational news items that Yoshitoshi drew for the newspaper Yūbin hōchi shinbun.

First Dream: 1. Fuji, 2. Falcon, 3. Eggplant

ContributorsKitagawa Utamaro (Artist) / 喜多川歌麿 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)

Created1797 to 1801

Description

Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen…

Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen of good fortune.

Woman Weaving

ContributorsYanagawa Shigenobu (Contributor) / 柳川重信 (Contributor)

Created1825 to 1832

DescriptionA late Edo-period surimono print.

Woman and Reeds

ContributorsTerasaki Kōgyō (Artist) / 寺崎廣業 (Artist)

Created1888 to 1919

DescriptionKuchi-e illustration with a circular portrait of a young woman washing her face before a mirror, superimposed on a scene of a river and reeds.