Captions of Hokusai Manga volume 11

  image1 image2   front cover
1r image1 image2   Preface by Ryutei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦 blank page
2r-1v image1 image2 Matta frontispiece: 漫畫 新 new manga
jurōjin with scrolls and inkstone
Preface by Ryutei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦
3r-2v image1 image2 Matta 芦屋道満 Ashiya Dōman
易術を競ふ compete in the art of cleromancy divination (described in I Ching)
安倍晴明 Abe no Seimei
trigrams of the I Ching : 山艮 mountain, northeast 天乾 heaven, northwest
水坎 water, north 地坤 earth, southwest
King Wen of Zhou
4r-3v image1 image2 Matta 鶏犬の声に crowing rooster, howling dog
吉㐫を知る be aware of your good fortune
辻占 street fortune-teller (holding a boxwood comb)
歌占 poetry fortune-teller (pulling the poem attached to the bow)
5r-4v image1 image2 Matta asleep on the desk, fan overhead
Woman farts
child on his father's back
man sitting on a cushion
man scared of a snake
vassal instructing a sitting man
woman smearing mud on her husband's face
two men sing, one beats with a fan
a man sing, another plays shamisen
勝敗 victory or defeat (two lions in yin yang posture fighting)
print by Hokusai
6r-5v image1 image2 Matta 二王の色あげ enhancing the color of Nio
興ある編
man with child on back
pilgrims ringing a bell
mother and child with insect cage
samurai
vendor carrying his products
7r-6v image1 image2 Matta 天狗のはな見 [crow] tengu [go] admiring flowers/nose (pun)
ぎたんの大と し びそ (print by Hokusai)
天人のでんがくみせ A celestial maiden prepares tofu dengaku
平の忠もり Taira no Tadamori
8r-7v image1 image2 Matta top : 下部のおくびょう bottom : 玉手箱乃まちがい Tamatebako mistake
9r-8v image1 image2 Matta 大裏 相撲の使 messenger for sumo wrestling
角觝の編 sumo wrestling
横綱免許 Yokozuna licence
谷風梶之助 Tanikaze Kajinosuke
つきやのそそう Tsukiya's temptation
10r-9v image1 image2 Matta しろうと すもう amateur sumo
まへすもう maezumō (sumo wrestler without ring name) 二ばん どり second belt
まどり
ちからおび しめこみの かたち strength belt
がくや とりまわし しむる
うきみ
しこふむ shiko (a motion in sumo)
11r-10v image1 image2 Matta へや入り entering the [sumo] room
三段立会ひ sandan witness (?)
中うの すもう とりくみ (中うの相撲 取組) * sumo wrestling
よびだし奴 Yobidashi
たいのかため
12r-11v image1 image2 Matta しりすもう Shiri (fight by bumping buttocks)
すわりすもう Suwari (sit and fight)
(fight with one leg)
さぎすもう Sagi (Standing on one leg like a heron)
三尺すもう Sanshuku (push or poke with one hand)
13r-12v image1 image2 Matta つらけん (面拳)
唐人拳 Rock paper scissors game (?)
イシロウ、ハンウ、ホヲウ、へエイトン
チイン、リウ、、ヌウ、オ、ウワア、アカア
とらけん
拳角力 Ken-sumo (game played with hand-symbols)
print by Furuyama Moromasa
14r-13v image1 image2 Matta 里田 village rice field
山家の田 rice field in the mountain
羅漢舞 arhat dance
15r-14v image1 image2 Matta 山の編
里畑 village field
山畑 mountain field
山田 mountain rice field
水田 paddy field
16r-15v image2 Matta 山中の時雨 rain shower in late autumn or early winter in the mountains 伐木渓を下す logs flowing downstream
17r-16v image1 image2 Matta 自然の石橋 natural stone bridge
裏見の飛泉 Urami Waterfall (print by Hiroshige)
安志尾の裏山 mountain behind Anshio/Ashio
庚申山猿が浄土 mount Kōshin is (Buddhist) paradise
二王石 stone of the two Deva kings
18r-17v image1 image2 Matta 猟師 hunter
雉子笛 kill the green pheasant
猟の編 hunter party
猪伐 凹を 覘う aim at a beast
髙を覘 looking up
19r-18v image1 image2 Matta 黐にて 烏をとらふ catching crows with birdlime
漢士の猟師 Chinese hunter (print by Hokusai)
切火縄 wick cord
切火縄 wick cord
口薬入
胴薬入 powder flask
玉袋 bag of bullets
烏口
火縄 rope
20r-19v image1 image2 Matta 海魔 sea demon
蛮國の 猟人 大鳥を 伐の形 hunting a big bird of a barbarian country
(both animals are or will be hit by the weapons of the next page)
猛獣を伐の圖 hunting big game
火伐筒 gun barrel
21r-20v image1 image2 Matta bottom : 弓締 yumiwana (crossbow?) top : 似西洋銃 海魔伐 western-looking gun for hunting the sea demon
22r-21v image1 image2 Matta 韃將以雙穴 短炮明兵伐 (a tartar on horseback with two guns attacking two Chinese soldiers)
23r-22v image1 image2 Matta 火伐側面
裡面之形 view from underneath
裡面ノ二 second view from underneath
雙穴の短炮 short gun with double barrel
火伐裡面
火門
脊面之形
火伐脊面
石挾 hammer
側面全圖 view from the side
引金 trigger
24r-23v image1 image2 Matta 刀八 毘沙門天 Tohatsu Bishamonten  
25r-24v image1 image2 Matta 略画の編 series of rough sketches I :
temple dance
courtier wearing a naga-bakama
courtier on bridge
samurai under dark cloud
Daikoku
Ebisu
Shinto priest holding a gohei to exorcise a woman on a man's back
making a rope
26r-25v image1 image2 Matta series of rough sketches II :
Sima Xiangru composing a fu (?)
monk drawing a dragon (龍) god
Chinese drawing a phoenix (凰)
watching two birds
drawing on a rock, drawing a dragon
courtier leaning, courtier hunting a deer
ghost behind a folding screen, Tokiwa Gozen dancing
tower
two courtiers in front of a fire, a monk
27r-26v image1 image2 Matta series of rough sketches III:
kneeling in front of a samurai
thief with a box
bare-chested, aiming a gun
dreaming, man with lantern
couple, doctor and patient
Court nobles and calligraphers of the Heian period :
Fujiwara no Sukemasa ?, court painter Kose Kanaoka
Kūkai (print 1 and print 2 by Hokusai)
Ono Michikaze and the frog (print by Shunsen)
Kojima Takanori (print by Harunobu)
Ikkyū winning a contest by drawing the character し with a broom on a scroll
28r-27v image1 image2 Matta 層輪塔 Sorin tower (there are such towers in various temples: Enryaku-ji, Rinno-ji, Sairen-ji, Tairyu-ji)
29r-28v image1 image2 Matta   三才鳥栖 triangular three-pillar torii
29v image1 image2 Matta advertisement 吾唯足知 I am content with what I am/have (Japanese saying)
(inscription on the Tsukubai of Ryoan-ji Temple)