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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: The Pride Publishing Company
- Creators: Maruya Kyūshirō
An Edo-period illustrated novel of the gesaku genre.
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.
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.
Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.
Triptych depicting the court dancer Shizuka Gozen 静 御前 (center) dancing before Minamoto no Yoritomo (far left).
Depicted are the characters Kujaku Saburō Narihira 孔雀 三郎 成平 (left), Ono Komachi 小野 小町 (center), and Ōtomo Kuronushi 大伴 黒主 (right).
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.