ASAI Chû
(Japan 1856–1907)
- Title
- Tôsei Fûzoku Gojûban Uta-awase: Jô
- Alternative title:
- Fifty modern genre scenes compared in verse: Vol.1
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Year
- Mar 1907
- Media categories
- Print, Book
- Materials used
- bound book: 30 leaves, 25 prints, colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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24.9 x 16.8cm leaf; 24.9 x 18.1 x 1.4cm closed book; 24.9 x 34.1cm open book:
1 - Untitled (the first Dietman and the hostess); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf f (page 2)
2 - Untitled (a scrounger and a maidservant); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf g (page 3)
3 - Untitled (a geisha and a doctor); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf h (page 4)
4 - Untitled (an actor and a sumô wrestler); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf i (page 5)
5 - Untitled (a Shinto priest and a Buddhist priest); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf j (page 6)
6 - Untitled (a public servant and a caretaker); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf k (page 7)
7 - Untitled (an old woman from the countryside and a ; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf l (page 8)
8 - Untitled (a tatami mat maker and a shoemaker); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf m (page 9)
9 - Untitled (a man and a modern woman); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf n (page 10)
10 - Untitled (a woman and a soldier going to the front; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf o (page 11)
11 - Untitled (a fishmonger and a butcher); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf p (page 12)
12 - Untitled (a missionary and a shrine maiden); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf q (page 13)
13 - Untitled (a candy man and a musician); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf r (page 14)
14 - Untitled (a woman from Ohara and a fisherman); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf s (page 15)
15 - Untitled (a village headman and a primary school t; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf t (page 16)
16 - Untitled (an entertainer and a man); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf u (page 17)
17 - Untitled (a rickshaw man and a cowboy); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf v (page 18)
18 - Untitled (a tofu seller man and a stonecutter); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf w (page 19)
19 - Untitled (a singer of Chûkai song and a singer of ; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf x (page 20)
20 - Untitled (a desperado and a moneylender); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf y (page 21)
21 - Untitled (a woman and a ticket examiner); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf z (page 22)
22 - Untitled (a fireman and a policeman); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf aa (page 23)
23 - Untitled (a guide and a waiter); 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf bb (page 24)
24 - Untitled (a painter of Western-style paintings and; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf cc (page 25)
25 - Untitled (a lithograph engraver and a wood engrave; 21 x 15.1cm; image; leaf dd (page 26)
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Accession number
- 345.1989.1.a-dd
- Location
- Not on display
