Title:"Le Reviel" Brown in Romantic. A woman awakens in her bed as her chamber maid opens her curtains for her. Blue in border. Title and Artist name appear in center bottom of print. 2 oval prints in oval frames which are connected by an inverted "V' joined by a wooden bow at the top.
Title: "Pilgrimage in the Snow". Explanation: Kuniyoshi did some good landscapes, many deserving to rank with those of Hiroshige. His figure studies are strongly drawn, often with a humorous touch. His colors are rarely the crude and hideous colors, while he frequently made a very effevtive use of masses of black, as this picture. The man has an umbrella and gourd in hand
Title:"Leisure at Tea Time" Signed. Engraver's Seal: Muneoka. In a Japanese home two elderly women sit by a coal-brazier. Woman in background has long tobacco pipe in hand. The other, with a volume of books. Upper section: Poem chanting about the brave deeds of young samurais.
Title: "The Gate Keeper, Sakuramaru". Signed By: (Toyokuni) Kunisada 1785-1865. Publisher's seal: Yebisu-ya with "Kiwame" Seal. Descriptive Title: Sakuramaro- name of Gate Keeper. Kunisada's work signed with his later name of Toyokuni are not very good. In his later years he did no more than the first outline drawing of a print, leaving his pupils to carry out the color scheme, and exercising no supervision of his printers. There are inumerable actor-portraits of his.
Title: "Father Time with Five Cupids", an angle flying in the clouds while three cupids are taking documents from the angle and two cupids holding onto documents
Title: "Entertainer and Her Attendants" or "Oiran and Kamuro". Explanation: Kuniyasu did rather uncommonwork. The Oiran dresses in splendor and his coiffure is of an elaborate nature. They are distinguished by wearing the sash (obi) tied in front. The "kamura" are children bought by the yaro-ya keepers at the age of 5 or 6. The man is holding a paper folding lantern.
Title: "Cherry Blossoms of the Sumida River". Explanation: Kuniyoshi also used manes Ichiyusai and Cho-o-ro. Right: Woman with toy instrument, after a day of viewing flowers. Medium: Woman and child calling back to husband. Left: Husband with umbrella and tobacco pipe in hand.
Title: "Cherry Blossoms of the Sumida River". Explanation: Kuniyoshi also used manes Ichiyusai and Cho-o-ro. Right: Woman with toy instrument, after a day of viewing flowers. Medium: Woman and child calling back to husband. Left: Husband with umbrella and tobacco pipe in hand.
This is one of his later works. This is a 3 sheet upright print called (Ta teye-Sammai-tsuzuki). Uyeno Park is still a famous park for its cherry blossoms in present day Japan. Here, the customers (of elderly women) of the 19th century can be seen. In the background is the famous Shiruizu Temple.
Title: "Morning of the Theatrical Opening at Sakai, Yedo". Explanation: People rushing to the gates for the opening with lunch boxes and floor mat covering. This woman is disorderly dressed.
Title: "A Happy Event". Explanation: The woman is presenting white rice cakes on a tray with chopsticks. Upper section: Picture of a bend on an island.