Title : Ehon tatoe no fushi 絵本譬喩節 (Picture Book: Occasions for Sayings)

Artist : Kitagawa Utamaro

Date : 1789 (New Year; preface dated)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Illustrated book, woodblock print. 3 volumes. 'Kyoka' anthology. Covers: Original, buff-coloured, printed with brown Chinese bellflower and seven treasure pattern. Title slips: Handwritten, later addition: Ehon tatoe no fushi, setsu, getsu, ka on white slips sprinkled with brass filings, pasted in top right corner of covers. Contents: (vol. 1) 9 leaves: 3 single pages of preface, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 2) 7 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 6 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 3) 8 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single page of artist's signature and announcement; advertisement and colophon pasted inside back cover. Illustrations/names of kyoka poets: (Volume one) 1. In front of an assignation tea-house in Yoshiwara. Sasaha Suzunari, Yadoya no Meshimori; 2. Fishing with a scoop-net. Ki no Karuhito, Koma no Asahaya of Shimotsuke; 3. Otomo no Kuronushi and Ono no Komachi. Nebu Itcho, Sangi Arimasa; 4. Makers of commercial rice-cakes. Nara no Asaoki, Negurade Takaku; 5. Quarrelling packhorse-men. Kosode no Susonaga of Tochigi in Shimotsuke, Imada Heyazumi; 6. Kintaro and a bear. Jomon Kitsumaru, Yashiki Katamaru; 7. Ushiwaka-maru and Benkei. Asakusa no Ichihito, Shosho Michiyori; 8. Tea ceremony. Zeniya Kinrachi; (Volume two) 9. Seiobo. Ohara Zakone; 10. Husband and wife at the water's edge. Nizukuri Hayabumi, Natane Choha; 11. Sermon at a temple. Chomen Kashiko, Uwa no Soranari; 12. Man throwing beans on New Year's eve. Tawara Funazumi, Hitomane Komane; 13. Display of chrysanthemums. Hyakkisai, Kubo Shunman; 14. In front of the house of a doctor of the Chujo school. Oya no Urazumi, Kashima no Odori; 15. Dawn at Yoshiwara. Chodo Hitoha, Nishikide Imari; 16. Ohara women. Mikuji Suekichi; (Volume three) 17. Legendary old man who caused trees to blossom (Hanasaka-jijii). Kanjo Utohito; 18. Blind men playing 'go' and giving a massage. Ichifuji Nitaka, Harakara no Akihito; 19. Blowfish-seller on a snowy day. Torai Sanna, Masaki no Katsura Nagakiyo; 20. Gambling by the roadside. Muhitsu Mon'ura, Soryo Yotsugi; 21. Visiting a shrine at the hour of the ox (Ushi no toki mairi). Ichi no Nakazumi, Kori Karinushi; 22. Scenes inside and outside a townsman's house. Kokoro Aritake, Namazu Morikata; 23. Parody of Yugiri and Izaemon. Hiruko Takamori, Tomoe Sasamaru; 24. Hawking party. Shikatsube no Magao, Sakeoke Kazuari of Shimotsuke. Inscribed, signed, dated and sealed.

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