Shiri-tori-ne Nashi Kusagusa

Catalog note / 解説

Woodblock triptych print, oban tate-e. Comic representation (giga), showing numerous figures engaged in various activities portraying legends, heroes, and stories, among others: (right sheet)--top left, torisashi (bird catcher), top middle, yamagaeri (returning from the mountain)(a pilgrim on Mount Fuji), top right, Mongaku Shonin under the waterfall, middle right, tsuibi yakko (a following servant), bottom right, Aoto genen (servants of Aoto (a dramatic character)), below, the nobleman and poet Ono no Tofu standing on a bridge, to the left, O-Han carried across a stream by Taira no Kanemochi, above them, Urashima Taro with his fishing rod amuses Yebisu the god of good luck; (centre sheet)-…