Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 3

  image1 image2   front cover
1r image1 image2   Preface by Ōta Nanpo 大田南畝 (blank page)
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta frontispiece: 漫画三編 Manga volume 3
(twins are a symbol of abundance, strength, happiness and family harmony)
Preface by Ota Nanpo 大田南畝
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta 衆弥 (しゅみ) Shumi[sen]
(see vol.13, 29r)
(Shumisen is the dwelling place of the four heavenly kings)
四天王 The four heavenly kings
多門天王 Tamon tennō (King Vaisravana)
持國天王 Jikoku tennō (King Dhatarattha)
廣目天王 Komoku tennō (King Virūpakkha)
增長天王 Zōjō tennō (King Virūlhaka)
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta new year celebration in a rich peasant's house:
cooking rice in a stove
Baking round rice cakes on the hearth
eating mochi, drinking tea and sake
吒枳尼天 Dakiniten (a cintamani in the left hand, the key to the rice barns of the gods in the other,
flying on a white fox)
稲荷大明神 Inari Daimyojin
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta soaking the bales
picking the rice from the straw
spreading the rice on straw mats
throwing the seeds in the water
pulling a cow
harvest
setting up nets for catching birds that destroy crops
pushing down the plow
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta Putting rice in straw bags
Carrying bags of 60 kg
Harvesting rice with a sickle
Carrying crops
threshing
Sorting shells and garbage with a winnow
Removing the rice bran by hitting it with a flail
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta sumo wrestling sumo wrestling
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta (すずめ踊り) sparrow dance (thirty-three postures) prayers for a good harvest and fertility
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta 山神宮 Sanjingu (panel over an entrance to the gold mines) 金山 Kaneyama (in Sado province)
print by Hiroshige
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta plants Workers in the (gold?) mine dig with pickases
they put the ore in baskets and carry it out
Manual drainage of seeped water
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta Various leaves : cherry, maple
Japanese iris, mountain maple, mallow
ginkgo
oak
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta 神農 Shennong (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) 伏犠 Fuxi (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta Chinese immortals:
丁令威 Ding Lingwei (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
梅福 Baifuku (Daoist hermit) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
武志子 Wu Zhizi (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
戴封 Dai Feng
張果 Zhang Guolao (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.10, 7v)
李八百 Li Babai (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
玉子章 Gyokushisho
孫康 Sun Kang (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
左慈 Saji
郝大通 Hao Datong (1147-1212) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
烈子 Liezi (Taoist immortal)
王喬 Ōkyō/Wang Qiao (Taoist immortal) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
車胤 Sha In/Che Yin (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
控鶴 Kō kaku (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
上利劍 Jōriken (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
東方朔 Dongfang Shuo (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.1, 1v and vol.10, 23r)
林和靖 Lin Bu (967-1028) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta 王倪 Wang Ni (a sage) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
陳南 Chen Nan (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
張志和 Zhang Zhihe (8th c.) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
傘風子 San Fūshi
尹喜 Yin Xi (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
孫登 Sun Deng (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.10, 22v)
篅禖 [Kan] Shōshi
盧敖 Lu Ao (275-195 bc) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
ふ丘伯 Fukyu Haku (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
麻姑 Magu (goddess of longevity) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
蝦蟇仙人 Gamasen'nin (Chinese hermit)
白石生 Hakusekisei (hermit) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
馮長 Hyocho (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.10, 24r)
張三豊 Zhang Sanfeng (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
黄初平 Kōshoei (328-386) (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
王處 Ōsho (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
鐵拐 Li Tieguai (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
馬成子 Ma Chengzi (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta 晏陀蠻 inhabitant of Andaman
交脛 Kōkei (legendary race in China)
激濮 (long tail, hoe)
羽民
無腹 Mufuku (legendary race in China)
後眼 (occipital eye)
三身 three bodies (in one)
丁霊 Teirei (man with horse legs)
長臂 Tenaga (imaginary human with long hands living on Tenagashima)
(print by Hokusai)
穿胸 Chest piercing
三首
飛頭蠻 Hitōban (Chinese yōkai)
小人 dwarfs
狗国 Kukoku (dog's head)
長脚 long legs (print by Hokusai)
長耳聶 long ears

柔利 (one leg, one arm)
文身 Tattoo
16r-15v image1 image2 Matta top : about dividing a plane into thirds vertically and horizontically
ここにて三寸の高さにかかんときは
三ツわりの法
二ツを天とすべし
一ツを地となす
bottom : old men with staffs, men with swords and bows
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta Komusō
pheasants and other birds
grinding tea leaves
rooster and hen, cat, dog
barrel craftsman
man with fan, man with pipe
courtesans
court noble sitting and maid
samurai with Fukaamigasa hat opposing two warriors
an actor dressed in kamishimo is bowing as he makes a kōjō (formal address)
samurai sneering at courtiers
men with bow or gun
catching birds using a birdlime-covered pole
18r-17v image1 image2 Matta Illustrations of Genji Monogatari :
Heartvine (chapter 9)
Wakamurasaki (chapter 5)
The Flower Feast (chapter 8)
Wild Carnation (chapter 26)
imperial visit (chapter 29)
The Flood Gauge? (chapter 14)
Trefoil Knots (chapter 47)
folding scrolls and broom tree (chapter 2)
Rites of Sacred Law (chapter 40)
The Cicada Shell (chapter 3)
A Picture Contest (chapter 17)
Early Ferns (chapter 48)
Flares (chapter 27)
The Sacred Tree (chapter 10)
The Festival of Red Leaves (chapter 7)
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta cranes in a paddy field
portable shrine
Nobori
Cliff edge road
Houses overhanging a cliff
Waterside willow, distant view of aœ village
Cherry blossoms and pine trees
Cypresses
Magnolia?
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta Hut under big willow, well in bamboo fence
The moon over a pointy rock
Gosho guruma (imperial cart)
Mt Fuji
Wild geese on Lake Biwa
Kameido Tenjin Shrine
Torii and row of lanterns
Married couple rocks in Futaminōra, Ise province
Mimeguri Shrine in Mukaishima on the banks of the Sumida River
Karasaki pine tree
Plum Park in Kameido?
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta 風[神] Fūjin (the wind god, with a bag of winds) 雷[神] Raijin (the thunder god, beating on drums)
hanging scroll by Hokusai (there is another sketch of Raijin in vol.12, 7r)
22r-21v image1 image2 Matta 幽霊 Yūrei (print by Toyokuni I)
山姥 Yama-uba
天狗 [crow] Tengu
狒々 Hihi (large monster monkey)
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta 船鬼 ghosts haunting a boat 海市 Kaishi
近景
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta 海馬 Hippocampus
水犀 water rhinoceros
人魚 mermaid
川獺
海鼠 otter
海鼠
水豹 seal
河童 Sea cucumber
鯪鯉 Pangolin
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta Decorative patterns
Instructions on how to draw
 
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta 山鵲 Taiwan magpie
鷚 Pipit
錦雞 Chrysolophus
烏鳳 Onagadori?
蝋嘴 Cape Barren goose
白鷴 Silver pheasant
鵲 magpie
風鳥 bird-of-paradise
ベラさぎ鷺 spoonbill
鵆 chidori
鶯 Japanese bush warbler
比翼鳥 mythical bird from ancient China
烏骨鶏 Chinese silk chicken
駝鳥 ostrich
27r-26v image1 image2 Matta 鴞 owl
翡翠 kingfisher
よしきり (reed, marsh-, tree-) warbler
蜀鶏 Tomaru
雷鳥 Thunderbird
カラクン Turkey
鸊鵜 cormorant
角鷹 Mountain hawk-eagle
鳶 black kite
鵜 Cormorant
鵙 blackbird
鷂 Eurasian sparrowhawk
鷲 eagle
28r-27v image1 image2 Matta 柘榴 pomegranate
藤豆 hyancinth beans
淺瓜 gourd
冬瓜 winter melon
蕪 turnip
茄 eggplant
瓢箪 bottle gourd
山酸漿 bladder cherry
蜀黍 sorghum
芍薬 Chinese peony
真桑瓜 Oriental melon
栗 chestnut
芋 Taro
つるいちご Vine Strawberry
29r-28v image1 image2 Matta 鐘馗 Shōki (he is the king of ghosts and evil beings in hell)
print 1 and print 2 by Hokusai
ghosts and evil beings
29v image1 image2 Matta advertisement "Treasure things" transported by the treasure ship of the seven lucky gods:
hat of invisibility, keys to the barns of the gods, scroll of books of wisdom and life
Ōban (Edo period oval coin), box with "1000 Golden Ryo" (金千両)
treasure bag, magic mallet, two crossed rolls of cloth
tachibana orange flower, rhinoceros horn goblets, A-shaped bridge for koto strings
fan, Cintamani stones, various mon, straw cape of invisibility
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