• Ohana Hanshichi. Adakurabe koi no hanazome (Ohana and Hanshichi. Competition for the fickleness of love)
    阿花半七. 艶競戀花染

Author:
  • Koikawa, Harumachi, 1744-1789
Artist:
  • Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848
  • Kinokuzubō, 1812-
  • 木乃屑坊, 1812-
  • 池田英泉, 1790-1848
Publisher:
  • [Edo ] : Kansendō Izumiya Ichibē, Bunsei 13 [1830]
  • [江戶] : 甘泉堂和泉屋市兵衛, 文政13 [1830]
Edition:
  • Shinpan.
  • 新版.
Extent:
  • 3 volumes : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Format:
Description:
  • Kusazōshi.
  • 草双紙.
  • 6 volumes bound in 3 physical volumes.
  • Title from page 2 of cover (mikaeshi).
  • On double leaves, East Asian binding (fukurotoji).
  • Within single border (15.9 x 10.5 cm.).
  • Exact mesurements: 17.5 x 11.9 cm.
  • Housed in a case.
  • 榎吉版.
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Koikawa Harumachi 戀川春町 (floruit 1744–1789)

    Classical Japanese
    Tōkyō (Edo), 1830, paper

    By the early 19th century long serialized narratives (gōkan) had become popular in Japan, as had color prints and image-heavy illustrated stories. One particular direction such works took was when the attractive colored covers of the different issues could be combined into one large picture made up of many covers. The title shown here consists of three issues, and narrates the tragic story of Ohana and her lover Hanshichi.

    East Asian Library Special Collections, PL795.K64 O53 1830

    For further reading

    Moretti, Laura, and Satō Yukiko (ed.) Graphic narratives from early modern Japan: the world of kusazōshi. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Exhibit category:
Genre:
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Fiction.
  • Literature.
  • Romans.
  • Littérature.