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Preface by Shakuyakutei Nagane 芍薬亭長根 |
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frontispiece: 北斎漫 畫十貳編圖 Hokusai manga, volume twelve
a person in the attire of a Chinese official with twelve kanji:
尾州 前 北斎 為一 書肆 永樂屋 (Bishū zen Hokusai Iitsu, bookstore Eirakuya)
print by Morikuni illustrating the Chinese concept of twelve ornaments |
Preface by Shakuyakutei Nagane 芍薬亭長根 |
| 3r-2v |
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Hotei (print 1 and print 2 by Hokusai)
Fukurokuju |
笑門に福来る good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
Daikokuten (print by Hokusai: Daikoku on the left, Ebisu on the right)
Ebisu with a daikon |
| 4r-3v |
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putting eyebrow makeup
stepping on a dress while dancing |
相馬 公家 nobles at the imperial palace at Sōma
blackening one's teeth in front of a mirror |
| 5r-4v |
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公時 遊興 [Sakata no] Kintoki entertainment (print by Hokusai) |
two crow tengu (print by Hokusai) |
| 6r-5v |
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tengu acrobatics (print by Hokusai) |
a konoha-tengu writing くらま山 (Kuramayama) and four crow tengu |
| 7r-6v |
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雷乃怪我 the thunder godʼs blunder
(there is another sketch of Raijin in vol.3, 20v) |
綻 ripped 仰天 taken aback
(the ripped dress was fixed in later editions) |
| 8r-7v |
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eating snacks behind a screen
spilling the contents of the mortar |
くしゃみ sneeze
*想
picking bamboo shoots |
| 9r-8v |
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溢物 |
大嚢 large bag |
| 10r-9v |
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風 wind |
(wind in grey strokes absent from both images, thus early editions) |
| 11r-10v |
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素麺 sōmen noodles
附髷 |
唐人踊り foreign dance |
| 12r-11v |
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塩治判官 Enya Hangan (committing seppuku in 4th act of Chûshingura)
toad (toad oil is supposed to cure cuts)
天眼鏡 magnifying glass |
股野 Matano [Gorō Kagehisa] (hero of Soga monogatari)
the woman might be courtesan Kisegawa given by Matano to Saburo Kawazu
(print by Hokusai: Matano wrestling with Saburo Kawazu; print by Sadafusa) |
| 13r-12v |
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Benkei pointing a naginata at Yotaka (print by Hokusai) |
千人切 attacking one thousand people (print by Hiroshige) |
| 14r-13v |
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three-eyed yōkai |
woman with very long neck smoking a pipe (print by Hokusai) |
| 15r-14v |
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scene from The Battles of Coxinga
(Watōnai is a main character in the play) |
和藤内の休息 Watōnai's rest
新吉原中之町 竹村伊勢大禄 Takemura Ise Daijō (famous candy shop) in Shin Yoshiwara |
| 16r-15v |
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天狗の面を 風呂敷に包む tengu mask wrapped in a furoshiki |
浄瑠理 Jōruri 出倩
治療 medical care |
| 17r-16v |
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print by Hokusai |
鍋鋳懸に釣鐘 temple bell at the tinker shop
女人禁制 no women allowed (presumably on a sacred site) |
| 18r-17v |
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fox caught in a trap
帯引 (a man pulling the mawashi of a wrestler) |
猟師 hunter
寒念佛 winter nenbutsu (man praying while hitting a gong) |
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河童を釣るの法 how to catch a kappa |
釣りの名人 Master of fishing
fishing for eels |
| 20r-19v |
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膽が芋になる the liver turns into a taro
(pun : octopus = tako in Japanese; there was also a popular belief that octopuses
love potatoes and would come out of the sea to steal potatoes from fields) |
縦 vertical
横 horizontal |
| 21r-20v |
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(proverb : every man knows his own business best) |
餅ハ餅屋 for rice cakes, [go to] the rice cake shop (hanging scroll by Hokusai) |
| 22r-21v |
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(the daija is a legendary snake impersonating the Water God) |
灰吹から大蛇 daija blowing ashes |
| 23r-22v |
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眼療 eye treatment
泥田 棒 [pushing] a stick in a muddy rice field |
早飛脚 fast hikyaku
(print by Hokusai) |
| 24r-23v |
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獨相撲 a solitary sumo (ancient Shinto rite)
雲雀山 餓鬼之助 Assistance from a hungry ghost from Mt. Kumogake
立臼に菰を巻く straw wound around a mortar |
the drum and fan suggest the sumo is a beggar performing a stunt
Japanese for beggar is komokaburi (clad with a straw mat)
"straw around mortar" (left) means "short and fat woman wearing an obi" (right) |
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蚓の天上 worm heaven |
(daimyo toilets)
あけぱなし、たれかけ無用 |
| 26r-25v |
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crow tengu crouching |
蠻国の灸治 Moxibustion in Togoku |
| 27r-26v |
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風呂屋 public bathhouse (see vol.1, 12v)
top : a pregnant woman has a belt under her breasts to prevent misfortunes
below : nun shaving her face |
鰻登り eels rising |
| 28r-27v |
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耳垢 earwax
鍋蓋 pot lid (linked to Handan's dream: millet porridge cooking during dream) |
かんたん (邯鄲の夢) Handan's dream (vain dream of wealth and splendor)
(reference to a Chinese novel from the Tang dynasty) |
| 29r-28v |
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福引 happy destiny |
(a large pestle is a symbol of good fortune) |
| 29v |
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(image 2 : colophon) |
豊年 fruitful year
Koban coins raining on a noble woman wearing an ichimegasa |
