Title : Shiri-tori-ne Nashi Kusagusa

Artist : Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Woodblock triptych print, oban tate-e. Comic representation (giga), showing numerous figures engaged in various activities portraying legends, heroes, and stories, among others: (right sheet)--top left, torisashi (bird catcher), top middle, yamagaeri (returning from the mountain)(a pilgrim on Mount Fuji), top right, Mongaku Shonin under the waterfall, middle right, tsuibi yakko (a following servant), bottom right, Aoto genen (servants of Aoto (a dramatic character)), below, the nobleman and poet Ono no Tofu standing on a bridge, to the left, O-Han carried across a stream by Taira no Kanemochi, above them, Urashima Taro with his fishing rod amuses Yebisu the god of good luck; (centre sheet)-top right, Honzo, from the Chushingura, top left, Chokichi, below, the painter Ukiyo Matabei, seated, behind is Daikoku, another god of good luck, with his mallet and sack, admiring a fountain of gold coins issuing from a rice mortar tended by a courtesan, middle left, a dancing shojo (drunken sprite) with a sake cup, middle right, Umegaye, below, Shibata Katsuie breaking the water jar, from which a Chinese child (kara-ko) escapes, the event being watched by three Buddhist divinities; (left sheet)- top right, Oniwaka Maru about to attack a a giant paper carp (on which Kinko, the sennin is riding) mounted on a long pole carried by the strong boy Kintaro, top left, Noritsune (not Nasu no Yoichi executing his master shot at the battle of Ichi-no Tano (Yashima)), below, the bandit monk Kumasaka Chohan, below, Jo and Uba, spirits of the pine-tree, right, Yoshitsune dressed as a travelling monk, bottom Raiko (Yorimitsu) also dressed as a travelling monk encounters an old woman (Takesago) on his way to slay Shuten Doji, bottom right edge, Yanada Yoichi.

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