Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) bijin series-135

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

"Remarkable women of the floating world" -

Ukiyo meijo zue (浮世名異女図会)

"Remarkable women of the floating world, 2nd part/issue"
Ukiyo meijo zue nihen (浮世名異女図会二編)

last updated:	new pictures: 08/18/21
	new information: 08/25/21

A bijin series that Kunisada designed following his stay in the Kansai region in 1821.
Women, often prostitutes, are depicted in everyday scenes.
The fan-shaped cartouches show special places from Edo and Kyōto as well as the travel stations in between.
The prints have a subtitle and usually a place name in the inset.
20 prints of the series published by Iseya Rihei are known.

A second series with identical image structure and content was published a few years after the first series appeared.
This series is also published by Iseya Rihei; it comprises 10 prints, but they only show places in Edo.
The prints have no page titles and only four of the insets have a place name.

Many thanks for the additions and further readings to Professor Anton Schweizer, Kyūshū University.

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	title: A street-walker now a waitress in the Gion-district (Rakuyō Gion-chō hakujin ima wa jochū - 洛陽祇園町白人いまは女中) inset: Prosperous Ichiriki [tea house] (Hae Ichiriki - 栄一力) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N7
	title: A waitress from Shimanouchi in Naniwa (Naniwa Shimanouchi nakai - 浪花嶋の内中据) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N7, NDL-k157
	title: A bathhouse girl from Arima in Settsu Province (Sesshū Arima no yuma - 攝州有馬の湯女) inset: The bathhouse (Tōjiba - 湯治場) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N3
	title: geisha from Edo (Edo Machi geisha - 江戸町芸者) inset: Enjoying the evening cool in Ryōgoku (Ryōgoku yūsuzu - 両国夕涼) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N1, NDL-k154
	title: Entertainer from Gion in Rakuyō (Kyoto) (Rakuyō Gion machi geiko - 洛陽祗園町芸子) inset: The evening cool at the Shijō Riverbed (Shijō Kawara no yūsuzu - 四条河原夕涼:) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k146
	title: A waitress from Gion in Rakuyō (Kyoto) (Rakuyō Gion no nakai - 洛陽祗園の仲居) inset: Izutsu (井筒) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k147
	title: High ranking courtesan of Shimabara (Rakuyō no Shimabara tayū - 洛陽　嶋原太夫) inset: The famous pine at the Sumiya (Sumiya no meishō - 角徠名松) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k148
	title: A prostitute from Pontocho in Rakuyō (Kyoto), also known as Shirayumoshi (Rakuyō Pontocho motozume ichimei shirayumoshi - 洛陽ぽんと町本誥一名白陽毛志) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k149
	title: A woman from Ōhara [near] Rakuyō (Rakuyō Ōharame - 洛陽大原女) inset: Yase village (Yase no sato - 八瀬の里) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k150
	title: A shirabyōshi dancer in eastern Kyoto (Rakutō shirabyōshi - 洛東白拍子) inset: The Hashi no ryō tea house in Maruyama (Maruyama Hashi no ryō - 丸山端の寮) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k151
	title: A top-ranking courtesan from the New Yoshiwara in Edo (Tōto Shin-Yoshiwara no yobidashi - 東都新吉原呼出し) inset: Gomeirō (五明楼) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k152
	title: The Eastern Capital, south-east district (Tōto tatsumi - 東都辰巳) inset: The new Mt. Fuji in Fukagawa (Fukagawa shin Fuji - 深川新富士) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k153
	title: The style of Nichomachi in Edo (Tōto Nichōmachi fū - 東都弐丁町風) fan inset: a scene from the theatre district (Shibai no kōkei - 芝居の光景) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k155
	title: A highranking courtesan from Shinmachi in Naniwa (Naniwa Shinmachi no tayū - 浪花新町太夫) inset: The Yoshidaya ageya (Yoshidaya - 吉田屋) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k156
	title: The dance of the prostitutes in Furuichi in Ise Province (Seishu Furuichi no oyama odori - 勢州古市於やま踊り) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k158
	title: Osen otama (?) from Ainoyama in Ise Province (Seishu Ainoyama Osen otama - 勢州相の山お杦お玉) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k159
	title: The Eastern Capital (Tōto - 東都) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: NDL-k716
	title: A prostitute from Okazaki in Mikawa Province (Sanshū Okazaki jōroshū - 三州岡嵜女郎衆) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N114, N121-11.15701
	title: A nun from Obata in Ise Province (Seishū Obata no ama - 勢州小畑尼) inset: A view of Futamigaura (Futamigaura no kei - 二見浦の景) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: L105, N43
	title: The Eatern Capital (Tōto - 東都) description: a prostitute from Shinagawa in the Eastern Capital (Tōto Shinagawa jorō - 東都品川女郎) inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: 1821 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N120-Z0172-110
"Remarkable women of the floating world, 2nd part/issue"
	inset: View of Shinobazu (Shinobazu no kei - 不忍の景) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N1, N121-11.42353
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N103
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N3, NN121-11.15697
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: thanks to Manuel Paias for the image, N121-11.42356
	inset: Ryōkoku - 両国 signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N121-11.15696
	title: Sumidagawa - 隅田川 signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N118, N121-11.42352
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N118, N121-11.42351
	inset: Snow on the Riverbank (ōkawabata no yuki - 大川ばたの雪) signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N121-11.42354
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N121-11.42355
	inset: no name signature: Gototei Kunisada ga size: ōban censor seal: kiwame date: c. 1824 publisher: Iseya Rihei ref.: N121-11.42350,N81

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