Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 10

  image1 image2   front cover
1r image1 image2   Preface by Heirodai Rojin 栟櫚台老人 blank page
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta frontispiece: 漫画 十編 Manga volume 10
Kaisei/Kui Xing, god of fortune, first star of the Big Dipper
a brush in the right hand, a box (with sutra?) in the left one, riding a shachihoko
print by Hokusai (whether the print represents Kaisei or Bunshōsei is controversed)
Preface by Heirodai Rojin 栟櫚台老人
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta 殷の妲姫 Yin no Dakki (depicted as a 9-tailed fox) 孫悟空 Songokū
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta print by Hokusai 信列陬防湖氷渡 crossing the frozen Lake Suwa in Shinano Province
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta 柿本の貴僧正 Kakimoto no Kisōjō
賀茂川の水を逆に流す reversed the flow of the Kamo River
 
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta Miscellaneous magic I :
袖中仙 sleeve magician
隠形 invisibility (through magic)
壺中仙 jar magician
蜂吹 blowing bees
吹馬 blowing a horse
呑刀 swallowing a sword
烟面 smoke mask
掌中浪 waves in the hands
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta Miscellaneous magic II :
牛舌 beef tongue
浦島 Urashima
自然火 natural fire
兌雷 thunder
埋形 buried
長頭 long head
六丈 six jo (long)
麻鬼迦玉
天狗松明 tengu torch
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta Miscellaneous magic III :
蝦蟇 toad
仙家の花 Senka no hana (master of flower arrangement)
群鷺 flock of herons
無相の滝 Musō fountain
張果 Zhang Guo (print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.3, 13r)
千尋の糸 thread of *
拳鐡 iron fist
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta 狐火 pale light seen at night
越中立山 Tateyama in Etchū province
楠の椀借 camphor bowls (for auspicious occasions)
上總 Kazusa
手斧母衣
越後入方の竒火
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta 花和尚 魯知深 Flowery monk (Kaoshō) Rochishin
print by Kuniyoshi
狐の嫁入り rain shower while the sun shines
武蔵坊弁慶 Musashibo Benkei
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta bottom : 豊干 禅師 The Zen monk Fenggan top : 日蓮上人 佐渡島 流罪 The holy priest Nichiren exiled to Sado Island
print by Yoshitoshi
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta 目連為母の為に冥途へ通う Mokuren goes to the Underworld
小野篁 冥途へ通う Ono no Takamura goes to the Underworld
役の小角 En no Ozuno
前鬼 後鬼 Zenki and Goki (husband and wife demons)
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta 黒旋風李起 Black whirlwind (Koku senpū) Li Kui
入雲龍 "Dragon in the Clouds" 里孫勝
能因 Nōin
小野小町 Ono no Komachi
其角 Kikaku
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta 小野道風 Ono no Michikaze 俊寛僧都 Shunkan Sōzu
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta 泰時の母公 [Awa no Tsubone] the mother of Yasutoki
加賀の千代女 Kaga no Chiyo
千利久 Sen no Rikyū
太田道灌 Ōta Dōkan
滝本坊 The monk Takimoto (one of the Sanpitsu?)
松永貞徳 Matsunaga Teituko
嵐雪 Ransetsu
16r-15v image1 image2 Matta 蝉丸 Semimaru (print by Kuniyoshi) 清玄法師の堕落 the fall of Buddhist priest Seigen
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta 河内国 姥が火 the old woman's fire (atmospheric ghost light) in Kawachi Province
遠州秋葉山 Enshū, Mount Akiha
天狗の川狩 catching tengu-looking river fish (?)
宗鑑 Sōkan
紫野 一休禅師 Zen monk Ikkyū in Murasakino
18r-17v image2 Matta 祐天和尚 Priest Yuten
累の怨恨 Kasane's ghost
菊女ヶ霊 The ghost of the Chrysanthemum Woman (Okiku)
三ヶ月上人 holy priest Mikazuki
print by Hokusai
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta 時頼入道 佐野に趣く Lay priest Tokiyori going to Sano
print by Yoshitoshi
雪舟 唐土に 富士を画く Sesshū in China drawing Mt Fuji
雪舟幼みより 画に妙なり In the childhood of Sesshū, a strange picture
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta six antics
八艘飛び eight boat leap
(in sumo, leap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent)
力持 strongman
夢の浮橋 pontoon bridge of dreams
手妻師 magician
猿引 monkey trainers
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta 大江山酒呑童子 Shuten-dōji in Ōeyama demon with sake barrel, sake bottle, sea bream and human head
22r-21v image1 image2 Matta Traffic in the snow
Chinese commoners : men carrying loads, firewood, grinding grain
雪中の往来 Traffic in the snow
Chinese officials
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta Chinese immortals
葛由 Katsu Yu/Ge You (a sheep at his feet; he sold sheep figurines for a living)
東方朔 Tobosaku/Dongfang Shuo (holding a peach of immortality)
(print by Hayashi Moriatsu) (see vol.1, 1v and vol.3, 12v)
涓子 Kenshi/Juanzi
慈童 Jidō/Ci Tong
(two of them on print5 by Hayashi Moriatsu)
子英 Shi Ei/Zi Ying
苗龍 Hyō Ryū/Miao Long (holding a scroll)
孫登 Sonto/Sun Deng (playing the qin) (see vol.3, 14r)
(all three on print1 and print2 by Hayashi Moriatsu)
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta Ten Chinese immortals
羅子房 Rashiho/Luo Zifang
王倪 Ogei/Wang Ni
鄭思遠 Teishien/Zheng Siyuan (with his sleeping tiger)
馮長 Hyocho/Feng Chang (see vol.3, 13v)
(all four on print4 and print5 by Hayashi Moriatsu)
明崇儼 Meisoki/Ming Chongyan
老子 Rōshi/Laozi
彭祖 Hōso/Peng Zu
重陽子 Choyoshi/Chongyangzi
謝仲初 Shachusho/Xiao Zhongchu (print by Torin Naminobu)
盧敖 Roko/Lu Xiao (on the back of a sacred turtle)
(all six on print2 and print3 by Hayashi Moriatsu)
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta bottom : men dancing at the sound of a drum and a flute top : playing biwa, dozing of over a stove, discussion
meal with sake
dreaming of a mansion
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta bottom : The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove: (print by Hayashi Moriatsu)
阮籍 Ruan Ji
向秀 Xiang Xiu
王戎 Wang Rong
山濤 Shan Tao
阮咸 Ruan Xian
嵆康 Ji Kang
劉伶 Liu Ling
top : Four Whiteheads of Mount Shang
夏英公 Minister Xia huang
角里先生 Elder Luli
綺里季 Qi liji
東園公 Minister Dong yuan
27r-26v image1 image2 Matta 釣柿 eating a persimmon on a string
烟草曲呑 writing letters with tobacco smoke
曲喰 catching manjū buns with the mouth
無藝大食 a lazy glutton
香具師 incense maker
28r-27v image1 image2 Matta 飛騨の匠 carpenters from Hida region (ten carpenters per village went to Kyoto in place of taxes)
木鶴 wooden crane
五斗兵衛 Gotobei (retainer of Yoshitsune) (print by Kunisada)
曽呂利 Sorori (Shinzaemon? 曽呂利新左衛門 ?)
志道軒 Shidoken [banging on desk with wooden phallus], (print by Seigyu Gyochin)
伊勢の神職守武 Shinto priest Moritake of Ise
貳朱判吉兵衛 Nishuban Kichibei (famous comic actor)
狂月坊 Kyōgetsubō (Reisei Tamemori, 1265-1328, the moon-mad monk)
佐渡国同三狸 three raccoon dogs of Sado Province
29r-28v image1 image2 Matta   家久連里 Hidden village
29v image1 image2 Matta advertisements Jurōjin holding a scroll written "大尾" (the end), implying no further volumes
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