Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 6

  image1 image2   front cover
1r image1     Preface by Shoku Sanjin Bunpotei (1768-1829) 蜀山人文寳 blank page
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta frontispiece : male and female dragons with a bow (弓 in Japanese)
漫畫 Manga
六編 volume 6
東壁堂 Tōhekidō
衆星閣 Shūseikaku 合梓
Preface by Shoku Sanjin Bunpotei (1768-1829) 蜀山人文寳
(image 2 : blank page)
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta   正ハ幡大菩薩 Hachiman Daibosatsu
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta Archery instruction for samurai archers wearing hakama practising Kyūdō
archers hunting ducks
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta Archery tools :
Bow
two targets
string
leather gloves
sharp arrowhead
quiver
quiver for training
Archers hunting
samurai with two attendants, one carrying a cloth quiver
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta   馬櫪尊神 Bareki Sonjin (guardian deity of horses)
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta 劉玄徳 Ryugentoku (Liu Xuande, 161-223)  
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta cutting a hoof horse training and care :
Horseshoeing
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta checking the teeth of a horse horse training and care :
riding without saddle
combing (and branding ?) a horse
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta senior samurai horse with harness
unbridled horse
commoner's horse
two Samurai horses
a white horse wards off evil spirits
wild horse
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta horses with saddle, rein and stirrup horses with saddle, rein and stirrup
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta daimyo procession
Low-ranking samurai
men holding up spears and boxes
horsemen in ceremonial attire
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta harness stand
a pail for wetting and washing horses
girth
patch cloth
lacquered saddle
Stirrup
bit
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta   摩利支尊天 Marishi Sonten (god of martial arts)
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta しころ (錣 shikoro) suspended neck-guard ハ ぬのなり
かくのことくうしろにて むすぶなり
sickle-and-chain
くさり定寸なるべし Chain should be standard size
こて (籠手 kote) gauntlets ハかはにてせいす
りうぎによりて せいさくさまざまニ つばはうしの かはなり
たけぐそく (竹具足 take gusoku) body armor
16r-15v image1 image2 Matta Bōjutsu Bōjutsu
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta Bōjutsu Bōjutsu
18r-17v image1 image2 Matta Jōjutsu Jōjutsu
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta Jōjutsu Jōjutsu
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta Bōjutsu Bōjutsu
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta bottom : Kenjutsu, referee on the left top : Bōjutsu
22r-21r image1 image2 Matta bottom : Bōjutsu top : Kenjutsu
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta bottom : Kenjutsu top : Bōjutsu
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta bottom : shuriken against folding fan top : spear against bare hands
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta 天文十二癸坊卯八月廿五日 Tenbun 12 (=1543), month 8, day 25
大隅国種ヶ嶌二瓢流 adrift in Tanegashima, Ōsumi province
(image 1 : 牟艮叔舎 Murashukurishiya)
(image 1 : 喜利志多孟太 Kirishitamota)
Kenjutsu
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta bottom : 早貝人
口藥人
top : 鐡炮 Tanegashima (type of gun)
27r-26v image1 image2 Matta men with guns men with guns
28r-27v image1 image2 Matta fighting an opponent bare handed fighting an opponent bare handed
29r-28v image1 image2 Matta Yubi tori finger technique
むなづくし Munazukushi Stabbing the chest
とるてをはづす Remove the hand that is holding [the collar]
むなづく とるてを
はづす remove
ぞくにいふ せんりびき Curl the middle finger and hold it down
てをしめあげる Tighten your hands
いた(?)くて しめさせぬ かたち
Ninja, thief, brawl
29v image1 image2 Matta advertisements war drum covered with ivy and birds (symbol of peace?)
  image1 image2   colophon
(image 2 : advertisements, in the following folios as well)
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