Daily life and traditions
KUNISADA Utagawa, dit TOYOKUNI III
FICHE 12445
(1786 - 1865)
Osan: First Day of the Horse in the Second Month (Umemitsuki no hatsu uma)
from the series Scenes for the Twelve Correspondences According to the Ise Almanac, Middle Section (Reki chûdan tsukushi, Ise goyomi mitate jûni choku
Woodcut in colours.
1847 - 1852
A signed impression signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga, published by Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô). Censor's seals Hama, Kinugasa.
The Twelve Correspondences (jûni choku), an important feature of Edo-period astrology, were a chronological sequence of days that were considered lucky or unlucky for various activities, calculated according to the orientation of the Big DIpper with respect to the twelve signs of the zodiac (jûnishi). In this series Kunisada associates each of the twelve lucky or unlucky days noted in the almanac with one of the twelve months.
Sheet: vertical ôban (355 x 245 mm.)
Condition: small holes in the upper left corner and the upper right margin. A vertical fold following the left edge. Impression yellowed.
