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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 of good fortune.
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.
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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Publisher) / 大黒屋 金之助 (Publisher)
Created1867
Description
This print by Kunisada II portrays standing Edo courtesan with a roll of tissues tucked in her obi. There is a calligraphic poetic inscription in the upper left corner.
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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
Description
Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.