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Oishi CHINNEN
Customs of the Easten Capital



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preface p. 3 / preface p. 2


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


Original front cover




01. New Year Archer / Manzai


table of contents / preface p. 6 (2)


preface p. 5 / preface p. 4




04. Battledore and shuttlecock / Yoyo seller


03. Itinerant New Year's musicians / Takarabune seller


02. First shrine visit of the New Year




07. Echigo lion dancers


06. Monkey trainers / Musicians


05. Fan seller / Sugoroku seller and customers


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10. "A bad day for whitefish"



09. Moxa treatment



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




13. Bathing the baby


12. Vinegar seller at Mimeguri


11. Viewing cherry blossom by the Sumida River




16. Preparing seaweed


15. Meeting of maidservants


14. Palanquin bearers




19. Mosquito-net seller / Fan seller


18. Pounding tabi / Hairpin seller


17. Wooden-tub maker / Carrying young daikon

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22. Festival celebrants


21. Firefly seller


20. Pulling rope




25. Sudden shower


24. Polishing rice kettles / Geta mender


23. Pottery mender / Spinning top




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






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







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





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".




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