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Oishi CHINNEN

Customs of the Easten Capital
(the complete book)




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preface p. 1 / inside front cover: title page (1)


Original front cover with patterns in 'gofun'


Brocade cover




table of contents / preface p. 6 (2)


preface p. 5 / preface p. 4


preface p. 3 / preface p. 2




03. Itinerant New Year's musicians / Takarabune seller


02. First shrine visit of the New Year


01. New Year Archer / Manzai




06. Monkey trainers / Musicians


05. Fan seller / Sugoroku seller and customers


04. Battledore and shuttlecock / Yoyo seller


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09. Moxa treatment



08. Butterfly toy-seller (middle)  / Toy seller (right)
Tobacco-pipe peddler and cleaning man (left)


07. Echigo lion dancers





12. Vinegar seller at Mimeguri


11. Viewing cherry blossom by the Sumida River


10. "A bad day for whitefish"




15. Meeting of maidservants


14. Palanquin bearers


13. Bathing the baby




18. Pounding tabi / Hairpin seller


17. Wooden-tub maker / Carrying young daikon


16. Preparing seaweed

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21. Firefly seller


20. Pulling rope


19. Mosquito-net seller / Fan seller




24. Polishing rice kettles / Geta mender


23. Pottery mender / Spinning top


22. Festival celebrants




closing note p. 3/4 / closing note p. 2/4





r: last p., dated and signed (3) ; epilogue (4)
l: closing note p. 1/4




25. Sudden shower




FOOTNOTES:

(1) Title page:


(2) Preface,  p. 6:

(3) Last page (r. half):

(4) Last page, epilogue (l. half):

(5) Closing note, p. 4/4:


(6) Inside back cover:


showing title: Taihei Uzo (secondary title), artist:
Chinnen Sensei, publisher: Sonando.

dated: Bunsei 12 (1829); signed: Minamoto Masumi

dated: Bunsei 12 (1829); signed: Edo Chinnen; sealed: Kao

signed: Shoka and Beinen

dated: Bunsei 12 (1829); signed: Shibutsu-rojin Okubo
Gyo
; sealed: Okubo Gyo and Shibutsu-rojin

colophon; dated: Bunsei 12 (1829); publishers: Kobayashi
Shimbei
and Osakaya Gembei, Edo; advertisement for: Chinnen
gafu
, nihen and smapen, "to be publsihed shortly".
      

r: closing note p. 4/4 (5)                            
l: inside back cover colophon (6)                            




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