Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 1

  image1 image2   front cover
  image1 image2   Preface by Hanshū Sanjin 半洲散人 blank page
(image 2 : advertisement)
1r image1 image2 Matta Jō and Uba, elderly couple in the Noh play Takasago, see also Jaanus dictionary
鶴 crane (crane, tortoise and pine are symbols of longevity)
Preface by Hanshū Sanjin 半洲散人
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta the Seven Lucky Gods 子千人持タル人郭シギ Kakushigi/Guo Ziyi with 1000 children
東方朔 Tōhōsaku/Dongfang Shuo
(print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.3, 12v and vol.10, 23r)
[西]王母 Queen Mother of the West
Shōjō
武ノ内[宿禰] Takenouchi no Sukune
浦シマ Urashima [Tarō]
三浦大助 Miura Daisuke (Yoshiaki, 1093-1181)
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta グニタニゴ
温公
孫叔敖
ゴシショGoshisho (Wu Zixu)
クワクリヨウ Kuwakuriyou
列仙ユアリランバ immortal
エンメイ Enmei (Tao Yuan Ming, 365-427) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
孔明 Kōmei (Zhuge Liang) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
関羽 Kanu (Guan Yu) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
角クヲイ
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta Two monks prostrate to a Buddhist teacher seated on a Chinese chair
a monk writes the name of the deceased and a short prayer on a sotoba(pillar on a grave)
Four monks chanting sutras and beating the rhythm with a shumoku (wooden bell hammer)
Four monks beg for food (detailed description)
a teenage novice with a portable altar on his back
a porter is passing by, perhaps curious
タンクハ Tankha
ハノンス
モンガク Mongaku (see vol.4, 4r)
レンせウ
一休
Ikkyū [Sōjun] (1394–1481)
チヨノウ Chiyono (1223-1298)
酉行
カンカウ
チヤウメイ
芭蕉
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta shipwrights
woodcutters
basquet weavers
charcoal makers
tea seller
Children on an anchor (print by Hokusai)
Ama (sea women)
Fisherman smoking a pipe opens shells
Fishermen mending their nets
Two fishermen at low tide
a fisherman with a net
a fisherman carrying a net and a basket
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta Glassworkers
Glassworker
Candy
Stretch a sticky rice cake and cutting it
pounding rice for mochi (hanging scroll by Hokusai)
two lion dancers (print by Hokusai), a flute player
playing Kemari
Servants of a samurai family
holding a sake barrel with one hand
carrying 60kg bales
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta On the patient's back
a fisherman making nets
Night watchman with a big lantern
flattenig the ground with a log roller
Making a mortise hole in a beam
Carpenter
Tofu shop
distributing the rice
a rice pounding machine?
A row of warehouses
Two moat anglers
a fight
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta an actor dressed in kamishimo is bowing as he makes a kōjō (formal address)
puppeteers with a geisha puppet and a samurai puppet on a go board (print by Hokusai)
singing with shamisen accompaniment
Gidayū chanted narration for puppet theatre
Masseur
making bows and arrows
blacksmith
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta Women reading
The earth spider wreaks havoc on Raikô and his retainers (print by Kunisada)
the spirit of the earth spider in the form of a woman frightens a servant
a Shinto priest performs rites of purification with an Ōnusa
his assistant carries a ritual bun of mochi on a tray
a person holds a shakujo, the other, wearing a hakama, rings a suzu to chant prayers
The six poetry immortals :
Fun'ya no Yasuhide (?-885?)
Sojo Hensho (816-890)
Kisen Hoshi
Ariwara Narihira (825-880)
Ono no Komachi (886-897)
Otomo Kuronushi
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta Grating a big yam
Making a bamboo vase
picture framer
Barber sharpening a razor
Grinding with a mortar
making Sudare (bamboo mat for making sushi)
Life in the Edo period I :
drunken man
zaru soba (buckwheat noodles served on a bamboo draining basket)
Hyakumanben Nenbutsu (repeating a buddhist invocation a million times)
tatami
sumo
Bunbuku Chagama
Reading a book by the light of a candlestick
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta a monk praying to heal someone's leg
a blind man is waiting
shamisen player
pilgrimage
Rotating a pail with the fingertips
washing
Life in the Edo period II :
grooming
a man picks his nose
aonther picks miso
playing oni
a masked man plays shamisen
pilgrimage
juggler
spearman
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta grilling miso dengaku (dish of tofu, fish or vegetable coated with miso)
woman in bridal dress
seven people Mushroom picking
Life in the Edo period III :
negociating
couple on the porch, woman smoking
Man selling manjū (steamed yeast buns)
opening oysters
a monkey tied to a stand
sedan chair and customers
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta man being lectured by his wife or mother
midwife checking pregnant woman
banquet
Two samurai standing guard
poetry (haiku or renga) group
Life in the Edo period IV :
messenger with a furoshiki and a lantern and a bag
a Soba seller with a box marked 二八そば (nihachi soba)
he is looking at a woman with a lantern and a nurse with a child
a man left his bowl of noodles to drink tea
women undressing, dressing, drying, washing in a bathhouse
(see vol.12, 27r)
a pregnant woman has a belt under her breasts to prevent misfortunes
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta Chinese and elephant
taking a break after cutting rushes
child playing flute (print by Hokusai)
child transporting freshly cut rushes
Foxes
Rabbits
Life in the Edo period V :
Traveling in the snow
open umbrellas on a rainy day
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta tigers
family of monkeys family
horse
squirrel
qilin
rats
deer
boar
Three lions
goat
raccoon
wolf
monkey
boar
bear
16r-15v image1 image2 Matta goose
ducks
three Cranes
swallow and sparrow
peregrine falcon
Three crows
rooster and hen
pheasant
turkey
flock of wild geese
mandarin duck
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta Spider
flies
grasshopper
caterpillar
ant
hoverfly larva?
longhorn beetle
lizard
scarab
maggot
snake
earwig
toad
Frog
hornet?
butterfly
grasshopper?
cicada
locust
dragonfly
snail
18r-17v image1 image2 Matta flowers flowers
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta plants plants
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta fish, clams, crabs fish, clams, crabs
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta mountains mountains
22r-21v image1 image2 Matta Fishing boat
Raft
Wasen (Japanese-style boat)
Chokibune (long, thin, roofless small boat)
Benzaisen (larg coastal sailing vessel)
 
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta plants plants
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta trees trees
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta bridges houses
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta houses houses
26v image1 image2 Matta advertisements Bamboo shoots sprout at a waterfall winding between rocks
Yakumo Waterfall
Shiranaga Longevity Waterfall
Shoun Waterfall