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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: 歌川 定房
- Creators: Chō Hori
- Creators: Gototei Kuniyoshiga
- Creators: Kitagawa Utamaro
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 Sadafusa (Artist) / 歌川 定房 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Chōzō (Publisher) / 川口屋 長蔵 (Publisher)
Created1835
DescriptionActor Sawamura Tossho portrays Matsuwaka, a character from the play Hana Butai Yoshiya Otoko 花舞台丹前侠客.
ContributorsUtagawa Sadafusa (Artist) / 歌川 定房 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Chōzō (Publisher) / 川口屋 長蔵 (Publisher)
Created1835
Description
Actor Iwai Hanshiro portrays Seigen, a character from the play Hana Butai Yoshiya Otoko 花舞台丹前侠客.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Gototei Kuniyoshiga (Publisher) / 五渡亭国貞画 (Publisher)
Created1840
Description
Depicted in this print is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō 尾上菊五郎 as Hisayoshi Hashiba 羽柴久吉 (a pseudonym for Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣 秀吉) in the play Sanmon Gosan no Kiri.
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.