Edo no hana iroha sugoroku [picture] / Ikkōsai Yoshimori ga
江戸の花いろは雙六 [picture] / 一光斎芳盛画
- Bib ID:
- 4971066
- Format:
- Picture
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- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- Edo : Fukudaya Chūbē, [18--? ]
- 江戸 : 福田屋忠兵衛, [18--?]
- 1 sheet. : woodblock, col. 54 x 50 cm.
- Summary:
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The board game sheet illustrates with the symbols and jackets of 48 teams of fire fighters; the members of those fire-fighters were of non-government people, mainly merchants and they looked after the areas where commoners lived, within Edo. The teams were named after Japanese alphabet 48 characters; the symbols and jackets had distinctive designs to intensify who they were; the image in the middle is of the ceremony held on January 4th, where fire fighters climb up the ladders and perform. Mount Fuji is viewed on the back; outside of the main image on the top, the ladders and the other equipment is also printed.
- Notes:
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- The print maker need to be identified: first or second Yoshimori Utagawa; signed as Ikkōsai Yoshimori' on the sheet.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-151491112
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- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1884
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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