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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

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.
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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Ebisuya Shōshichi (Publisher) / 恵比寿屋庄七 (Publisher)
Created1855
Description

This triptych shows a scene from one of the many kabuki plays based on the revenge tale of the Soga曽我 brothers.

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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Yamadaya Shōbei (Contributor) / 山田屋庄兵衛 (?) (Contributor)
Created1851
Description

This print shows the actors Sasaki Gennosuke 佐々木源之助 (left) and Yodo Yosaemon 淀与三右衛門 (right) performing a fight scene in a kabuki play.

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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.