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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: The Pride Publishing Company
- Creators: 歌川 国定
ContributorsTakizawa Bakin (Author) / 曲亭 馬琴 (Author) / Utagawa Kuniyasu (Illustrator) / 歌川 国安 (Illustrator) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1829
Description
An Edo-period illustrated novel of the gesaku genre.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Uhei (Publisher) / 川口屋 宇兵衛 (Publisher)
Created1846
DescriptionThis print is the right panel of a triptych that shows three women caught in a beam of light from a stone lantern while viewing cherry blossoms at night.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Kiya Sōjirō (Publisher) / 木屋 宗次郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
DescriptionThe onnagata actor, Sawamura Tanosuke, as Shiranui Daijin in the kabuki play Kinoene Soga Daikokubashira 甲子曽我大国柱.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Tsutaya Kichizō (Publisher) / 蔦屋 吉蔵 (Publisher) / Hori Shōji (Contributor) / 彫 庄治 (Contributor)
Created1852
DescriptionThe kabuki actor Seki Sanjūrō II portrays the character Amazaki Jūichirō Terufumi from the dramatization of the 106-volume 19th century novel, Nansō Satomi Hakkenden 南總里見八犬傳 (The Tale of Eight Dogs), by Kyokutei Bakin.
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.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Hori Ei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫 栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1875
DescriptionThis print depicts a woman in a graveyard being rescued by a policeman. The attempted rapist (right) flees from the scene. It is from a series of illustrated sensational news items that Yoshitoshi drew for the newspaper Yūbin hōchi shinbun.
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).