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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.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1851
Description
This diptych shows the ghost of Asakura Tōgo 朝倉當吾 returning to haunt the man responsible for his death, the corrupt governor Orikoshi Tairyō 織越大領. A kappa (a traditional folk monster) tumbles comically at Orikoshi’s feet.
ContributorsToyohara Kunichika (Artist) / 豊原 国周 (Artist) / Horikō Sakai (Contributor) / 彫工 栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1867
Description
This triptych shows a scene from the kabuki play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees).