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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.

First Dream: 1. Fuji, 2. Falcon, 3. Eggplant

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…

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.

Minamoto no Yoritomo's Hunt at Mt. Fuji

ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)

Created1847 to 1850

DescriptionTwo panels of a vertical ōban triptych

Kabuki Actors Being Fawned Over by Beautiful Women Backstage

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.

Scene From 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).

Okano Ginemon Kanehide

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

Scene From the Dance "Kuronushi" From the Play "Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori"

ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川国貞 (Artist) / Horikō Shōji (Contributor) / 彫工庄治 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)

Created1854

Description

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).

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