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- Creators: The Pride Publishing Company
- Member of: Japanese Prints from the Arizona State University Art Museum
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.
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).
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 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).
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 Sadahide (Artist) / 歌川 貞秀 (Artist) / Yokokawa Hori Iwa (Contributor) / 横川 彫 岩 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1861
Description
Depicted are two French visitors to Japan surveying the view from Edo's Atago Hill.