Arts of Asia — Page 95

"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Ka": A Court Lady Thinks Disconsolately of Her Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Wa": Young Grass, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Nu": Crossing Tatsuta, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Ri": The Well Curb, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Na": Nunobiki Waterfall, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Ne": Brine Carriers, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Re": The Imperial Huntsman, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Ta": Purification Ceremony to Remove the Pains of Love, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Yo": A Man Meets a Former Lover, now Serving in a Provincial Household, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"U": Narihira Presents a Chancellor with a Model of a Pheasant, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Ra": Narihira Requests a Painting from a Former Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

"So": A Coquettish Woman, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as the Boatman Jirosaku in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1775

"Mu": Clapping the Hands to Effect a Curse, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Karigane Obun, Nakayama Tomisaburo I as An no Oyasu, Iwai Kiyotaro II as Kaminari no Osha, Nakayama Tatezo I as Gokuin no Osen, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hotei no Oichi (right to left), in "Gonin Onna," Scene One of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1792

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1792

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1778

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo, in Act Four (?) of the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (Forest of the Nue Monster: Target of the Eleventh Month), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1770

Ushiwaka-maru on the Gojo Bridge

Ippitsusai Buncho, reprint of c. 1769 design

The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro, the Retainer of Utou Yasukata, in Part Two of the Play Kogane no Hana Gaijin Aramusha (Gold Flowers: The Triumphal Return of Fierce Warriors), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1766

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1766

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a Female Role

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari Disguised as a Fox Trapper in the Play Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

Actor Arashi Hinaji I, (possibly) as Yuya Gozen in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (Ima o Sakari Genji)

Ippitsusai Buncho, About 1768

Hinaji of the Chojiya, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769/70

The Actor Ichikawa Benzo in an Unidentified Role

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1768

Ayase no Yusho, from the series "Bokusui Hakkei"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa)

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1784

Takata, from the series "Ten Summer Scenes in Edo (Edo natsu jikkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1787

Two Women and a Child after a Bath

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1782

Teahouse overlooking rice fields, from the series "Ten Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan jikkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Descending Geese at Mimeguri (Mimeguri no rakugan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1778

View from Azuma Bridge, from the series "Ten Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan jikkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Courtesans of Yoshiwara and their attendants viewing the peonies on Nakanocho

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1787

Geisha Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Ueno

Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/1801

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Shirai Gompachi in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1793

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Banzui Chobei in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1793

Actor Segawa Kikunojо̄ III as a Beauty in a Summer Kimono

Katsukawa Shunjо̄, Early 1780s

The Eleventh Month (Juichigatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"

Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/1801

Women in a Mansion

Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/1801

Hawk on a Plum Branch

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shun'ei, late 1790s

Tomimoto Toyohina, from the series "Famous Beauties of Edo (Edo komei bijin)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793/94

Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Sasano, Takeno (Matsubaya uchi Kisegawa, Sasano, Takeno), from the series “Seven Komachi of Yoshiwara” ("Seiro nana Komachi")

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1794/95

Takashima Ohisa

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793

Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places" ("Meisho koshikake hakkei")

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1795/96

Tomimoto Toyohina

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793