Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 8

  image1 image2   front cover
1r image1 image2   Preface by Kozan Gyoo 絳山漁翁 blank page
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta frontispiece: 八編 北斎漫画 volume eight of Hokusai Manga
eight leaves and butterflies
Preface by Kozan Gyoo 絳山漁翁
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta 大戸之道尊 Otonoji no Mikoto (god in Shinto mythology) 提秤 勝男木 chigi and katsuogi の起
大苫邊尊 Otomabe no Mikoto (goddess in Shinto mythology)
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta 黄帝元妃西陵氏 Xiling-shi, first wife of the Yellow Emperor
(behind her are shelves for silkworms)
稚産霊日神 Wakumusubi
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta 唯一作 the only work (a unique creation?)  
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta   七面作 Seven-gabled production
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta 棟上具 items for ridge-pole ceremony
(performed when the framework of a house under construction has been set up)
A demon that supports the eaves of the upper roof
Qilin and Elephant
Lions
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta loom
髙機圖
五編目鳥居部
漢土
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta making silk spools
二編目鳥居部
同葢
蛾 moth
蠶 silkworm
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta 絹機 Silk loom
五編目鳥居部
車ノ部
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta Tools for drying dyed raw silk collecting mulberry leaves
Chopped silkworm feed
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta 無礼講 (acrobats) 田楽法師 professional Dengaku performers (usually disguised as monks)
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta acrobats acrobats
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta Blind men and an elephant  
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta あきめくら eye that looks normal but is blind (or illiterate person) めくら blind
16r-15v image1 image2 Matta sleeping
reading a book
smoking a pipe
cooking on charcoal
couple arguing
two laughing monks with mokugyo
lowly official
three fat women walking
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta making straps for geta story teller and audience
Two guests playing shamisen and singing, and a courtesan
after the bath
18r-17v image1 image2 Matta skinny wrestlers and fighters skinny man with shoulder-carrying-poles
skinny man hands the plaster to the end of a pole
skinny bare-chested storyteller
Skinny samurai meditating
retainer remonstrating by holding down the naga-bakama of a samurai
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta a woman rolls up her sleeves, another straightens her hair
shamisen, shakuhachi and kokyū players
two persons using a mortar and one cutting fish
two women entertaining in a tatami room
a cat's cradle
two persons with fans resting
a skinny man looking at two others playing shōgi
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta The Twenty-four paragons of filial piety I
七 郯子 7 (6) Tan Zi
八 江革 8 (14) Jiang Ge
九 陸績 9 (13) Lu Ji
九 寉山南 10 (22) Cui Shannan
十一 呉猛 11 (17) Wu Meng
十二 王祥 12 (18) Wang Xiang
the Japanese order is different from the Chinese one, given in brackets
一 大舜 1 (1) Taishun
二 曽参 2 (3) Zeng Shen
三 漢文帝 3 (2) Emperor Wen of Han
四 閔損 4 (4) Min Sun
五 仲由 5 (5) Zhong You
六 董永 6 (8) Dong Yong
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta The twenty-four paragons of filial piety II
十九 黄香 19 (15) Huang Xiang
廾 姜詩 20 (10) Jiang Shi
廾一 王裒 21 (16) Wang Pou
廾二 丁蘭 22 (12) Ding Lan
廾三 孟宗 23 (20) Meng Zong
廾四 黄庭堅 24 (24) Huang Tingjian
十三 郭巨 13 (9) Guo Ju
十四 揚香 14 (19) Yang Xiang (print by Hokusai)
十五 朱壽昌 15 (23) Zhu Shouchang
十六 庾黔婁 16 (21) Yu Qianlou
十七 老来子 17 (7) Laolaizi
十八 蔡順 18 (11) Cai Shun
22r-21v image1 image2 Matta 山牡丹 mountain peony 蝦夷産のエトピリカ tufted puffin native of Ezo
石蜐 Japanese goose barnacle
オクリカンキリ okurikankiri (a crawfish stone)
ザリガニ crayfish
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta 三角草 Hepatica nobilis
黒百合 black lily
黄精 Solomon's seal rhizome
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta Life in Edo I
Shou Lao (god of longevity) and deer
Hotei
Ebisu
woman with a pipe
child with windmill
two Men in tea ceremony
man with a dog
samurai
arguing couple
samurai and commoners with hats
angler
Baked sweet potato seller
customers continue
delivery
illusionist
mendicant
street vendors
precious metal dealer
toy seller
charcoal Grill
calendar sales
vegetable seller
porters waiting
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta The same six poetry immortals in different poses The six poetry immortals :
Ono no Komachi in front of a curtain
Sōjō Henjō in monk's black robe
Fun'ya no Yasuhide
Ōtomo no Kuronushi facing Ono no Komachi
Kisen Hōshi in monk' black robe
Ariwara no Narihira in hunting clothes
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta Famous Places of Edo I
飛鳥山 Asukayama [park] (famous cherry blossom spot)芝
神明 Shiba Shinmei [shrine]
駒込不二 Komagome Fuji [shrine]
佃住吉 Sumiyoshi shrine on Tsukuda island
目黒 Meguro [Fudō]
平井聖天 Hirai Shoten
愛宕 Atago [Shrine]
御茶の水 Ochanomizu site of samurai residences at the time
大川橋 Okawa Bridge (across the Sumida river)
亀戸 Kameido [Tenjin Shrine] (with Taiko Bridge)
不忍 Shinobazu [Pond]
渕嵜 Fuchizaki
溜池 Tameike
滝ノ川 Takinokawa (in Kita Ward)
王子 Ōji [Inari Shrine]
感能寺 Kan'nō Temple
27r-26v image1 image2 Matta Famous places of Edo II
富ヶ岡 [Tomioka] Hachiman shrine
吉原 Yoshiwara
金竜山 Kinryuzan
行徳 Gyotoku (in Ichikawa City)
羽根田 Haneda (wetland where Anamori Inari Shrine used to be)
佃島 Tsukudajima
麻布 Azabu
神田 Kanda [Myojin]
上野 Ueno (Kan'ei-ji ?)
羅漢寺 [Gohyaku] Rakanji (Temple of the Ōbaku sect)
山王Sanno [Gongen shrine]
本牧 Honmoku (rural seaside village of Yokohama)
隅田川 Sumida River
両国 Ryogoku bridge (fireworks during the Kawabiraki festival)
梅屋敷 Umeyashiki (print by Hiroshige)
鳴ノ台 Narunodai
28r-27v image1 image2 Matta Famous places of Japan
竹芝寺ノ古圖 view of Takeshiba Temple
真間の入り江 Shinma cove (in Ichikawa city)
香取 Katori [shrine]
飛騨 篭の渡し Basket ropeway in Hida (print by Hiroshige)
岡崎橋 Okazaki Bridge (print by Hokusai)
足立 黒塚 Kurozuka in Adachi
武州 府中 六社 six shrines in Fuchū
信州 鬼窟 devil cave in Shinshu
江ノ島 Enoshima
甲州 二ヵ瀬越 Futase Goshi in Kōshū
伊豆の不二 Fuji from Izu
利根ノ遠帆 Tone river
寝覚 Nezame no toko
雨後の大井川 Oi River after the rain
武蔵野の不二 Fuji from Musashino
善光寺
29r-28v image1 image2 Matta 鍾乳穴 Stalactite cave
強ノ窟 * cave
大師窟 Daishi Cave (ancient burail mounds)
鞍懸岩, 葛籠岩 Kurakake Rock, Tsuzura Rock
文珠石, 釋迦石 Monju rock, Shaka rock
鸚鵡石, 勢州 Parrot rock in Seishū province
武陽
総州 千騎ヶ岩 Senkigaiwa in Sōshū province
松浦 幕夫石 Makufu rock in Matsuura
29v image1 image2 Matta advertisements 桑摘老サイソウロウ Saisōrō
(an old man in search of a medicinal herb to prolong his life)
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