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“Miyagino the filial”, (1847/1848 ?), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Print from the series “Stories of dutifulness and loyalty in revenge”.
Depicts one of the two sisters who avenged their father during the 17th century. Their story inspired the kabuki play “Go Taiheiki shiraishi banashi” for instance.
Here the older sister, Miyagino, is represented carrying both a naginata and a sake cup.
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One of Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s ukiyo-e works is called ‘Cats suggested as the fifty three stations of the Tokaido’ and, as it’s name unsubtly suggests, depicts each station of Japan’s historical Tokaido route as cats.
My wife has a cushion of the cat representing Shinagawa, shown at the top of the picture in this post, which she bought at a shop in Ueno Station in Tokyo. We’ve been trying to work out how the cat and its name are connected with Shinagawa, as some of the other cats in Kuniyoshi’s work are puns or plays of the names of the stations.
I’d be really grateful to anyone able to help solve this little mystery, so that we can know our cat better!
Picture source: https://www.wikiart.org/en/utagawa-kuniyoshi/cats-suggested-as-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tokaido
Final session to complete this design based a #kuniyoshi design from the Heroes of the Suikoden collection. Thanks Alex.
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Konseimao Hanzui Beset by Demons, Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
