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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: 歌川 定房
- Creators: Chō Hori
- Creators: Kitagawa Utamaro
- Creators: Koizumi Hori Kane
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) / Koizumi Hori Kane (Contributor) / 小泉 彫 兼 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1860
Description
Depicted are the kabuki actors Nakamura Shikan IV 四代目 中村 芝翫 as the wood cutter Ōtomo Kuronushi 大伴 黒主, who is plotting a coup d'état, and Sawamura Tanosuke III 三代目 中村 芝翫 as Sumizome 墨染, the spirit of the cherry tree.
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 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.