- Museum number
- 1929,0731,0.10.3
- Title
- Object: Ehon tatoe no fushi 絵本譬喩節 (Picture Book: Occasions for Sayings)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 3 of three volumes. Woodblock-printed. '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.
- Production date
- 1789 (New Year; preface dated)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.50 centimetres
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Width: 15.40 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Asano and Clark 1995
A three-volume work in which appropriate pictures and ‘kyoka’ poems are used to illustrate what must have been popular proverbs and sayings of the day. The contents of the preface by Tsuburi Hikaru indicate that it was compiled by Tsutaya Juzaburo. Utamaro's illustrations are mainly genre scenes and they accord well with the ‘kyoka’ poems. The colophon has been reused from ‘Ehon Edo suzume’ with the date cut out, so although no date appears in this colophon, it seems reasonable to assume that the date of publication was the same as the date given in the preface, that is, New Year 1789.
In 1797 an edition was published by the Osaka firms of Akashiya Ihachi and Izumiya Genshichi who had acquired the blocks.
Literature:
Otaka, Sennosuke 尾高鮮之助, "Utamaro no kibyoshi ko, 1-3"『歌麿の黄表紙考（一）~（三）』, ‘Mizue’「みづゑ」, 275-277, 1928, 19-22.
‘Kokusho somokuroku’「 国書総目録」, vol. 1, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1963-72, pl. 496.
Other copies:
The British Museum, London (another copy, JH155).
National Diet Libarary 国立国会図書館 (1797 edition).
Tohoku University 東北大学.
Nishio Municipal Library 西尾市立図書館 (1815 edition).
Kagawa University 香川大学 (date unknown).
[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]
当時人口に膾炙していたであろう譬え事（諺）を選び、それに合わせて絵と狂歌を作成し3冊にまとめたもの。頭光の序文により、版元蔦屋重三郎の編であることが了解される。狂歌と、風俗画を中心にした歌麿の絵とはよく照応している。本書の刊記は、『絵本江戸爵』の年記部分を削除してそのまま流用している。したがって刊記に年期の記載はないが、序文と同じく天明9年（寛政元年）正月と考えて差し支えないであろう。
寛政9年に、大坂の明石屋伊八並びに和泉屋源七から求版本が刊行されている。
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: New Year's Eve
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1929,0731,0.10.3
- Additional IDs
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Japanese Illustrated Book number: JIB.139
