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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
- Creators: 歌川 定房
- Creators: Chō Hori
- 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 Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1847 to 1850
DescriptionTwo panels of a vertical ōban triptych
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1835 to 1841
Description
Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1842 to 1846
Description
Triptych depicting the court dancer Shizuka Gozen 静 御前 (center) dancing before Minamoto no Yoritomo (far left).
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1847
DescriptionPortrait and biography of one of the 47 rōnin from the Chūshingura story
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 Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / Ningyōya Takichi (Publisher) / 人形屋多吉 (Publisher)
Created1849
Description
An actor in the role of Yaoya Oshichi from the play Sono Mukashi Koi no Edo zome 其往昔恋江戸染.
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / Yamamotoya Heikichi (Publisher) / 山本屋平吉 (Publisher)
Created1848 to 1849
DescriptionThis print portrays Yūshi (also known as Akechi) Samanosuke Mitsuharu, and is number 31 of a series by Kuniyoshi entitled Taiheiki Eyuden 太平記英勇傳 (Heroes of the Great Peace).
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.