多彩・繊細 摺物の世界

企画展示室１ (Exhibition Room 1)

Vitality and Delicacy:
The World of Privately Published Surimono Prints

Two Beauties in Black Hoods / Katsushika Hokusai

この度は北斎館の企画展「多彩・繊細・摺物の世界」へお越しくださいましてまことにありがとうございます。この展覧会は、当館がコレクションする数多くの摺物に焦点をあてた展覧会です。
摺物とは、江戸時代に俳諧や裕福な旦那衆の中で流行した高価な木版画のことです。正月や春の節句など季節の節目に仲間うちで配られました。江戸時代にあった絵草紙屋と呼ばれる版画や版本を取り扱う店などで売られることはほとんどなかったため、現代に残っているものは少なく貴重なものになっています。呉服商などの裕福な商人たちは、お金に糸目をつけず競うように豪華な作品を求めたといい、当時の人気絵師に作画を、腕のいい彫師や摺師に制作を依頼していました。
摺物の形は様々で、現代の画用紙のような大きなサイズのものから、ポストカードサイズのものまであります。職人たちは光に反射するときらきらと光る雲母粉（きららふん）を使った雲母摺（きらずり）と呼ばれる技法や、顔料を用いずに摺り模様跡だけをつける空摺（からずり）と呼ばれる技法を駆使し、繊細かつ高度な技を作品に注ぎ込みました。北斎も摺物を多く手掛けており、描く線の繊細さやきめ細やかさは目を見張るものがあります。
摺物にされるテーマにはさまざまなものがあり、正月に配られる摺物にはその年の干支や鏡餅などの正月飾り、雛祭りなどの春の節句には雛人形や桃の花がモチーフにされました。また、現代のカレンダーのように大の月、小の月を表す数字を絵の一部として忍ばせて描くユーモアに溢れたものや、歴史や物語の中の登場人物をその物語とは関係のない世界に描いたパロディ作品のようなものなどその内容は多彩です。
江戸時代に裕福な商人たちによって楽しまれた、華やかで繊細な摺物の数々をどうぞお楽しみください。

黒頭巾の二美人／葛飾北斎あやとり／葛飾北斎
Cat’s Cradle / Katsushika Hokusai
高砂島台／葛飾北斎
Takasago Table / Katsushika Hokusai
短冊を持つ女／葛飾北斎
Woman Holding a Tanzaku Poetry Card / Katsushika Hokusai
煙草を吸う人と芸者／葛飾北斎
Smoker and Geisha / Katsushika Hokusai
糸巻き／葛飾北斎
Reeling / Katsushika Hokusai
桃太郎／葛飾北斎
Peach Boy / Katsushika Hokusai
綿帽子売り／葛飾北斎
The Watabōshi Seller / Katsushika Hokusai
六美人／葛飾北斎
Six Beauties / Katsushika Hokusai
遊郭の芸妓／葛飾北斎
Geisha of the Pleasure Quarters / Katsushika Hokusai
扇屋店先／葛飾北斎
At the Fan Shop / Katsushika Hokusai
夢見る女／葛飾北斎
Dreaming Woman / Katsushika Hokusai
諸芸三十六のつつき 書／葛飾北斎
Calligraphy, from the series Thirty-six Accomplishments / Katsushika Hokusai
書を考える花魁／葛飾北斎
A Courtesan Thinking About What to Draw / Katsushika Hokusai

Thank you for coming to see our latest planned exhibition, Vitality andDelicacy: The World of Privately Published Surimono Prints, which focuses on
the many surimono prints in our collection.
Surimono are expensive woodblock prints that were in vogue among poets
and their wealthy patrons during the Edo period, distributed among the likeminded to mark the New Year, a spring festival, or other seasonal occasion.
Since these were almost never sold at ezōshiya or other shops that dealt in
illustrated prints and books, precious few remain to the present day. Kimono
dealers and other wealthy merchants are said to have spared no expense incompeting to create the most luxurious works, commissioning their design to

見立天拝山 山を見上げる女／葛飾北斎

popular artists and their production to skilled block carvers and printers.
Surimono come in a variety of forms, ranging from small post card-sized prints
to larger ones comparable in size to the drawing paper of today. Artisans
invested them with fine workmanship and advanced skills, making full use oftechniques such as kirazuri (using powdered mica to create a glittering effectin the light) and karazuri (embossing to create patterns without the use ofpigments). Hokusai was a prolific producer of surimono, showing an amazing
delicacy and meticulousness of line.
Surimono were produced on a variety of themes; motifs for those distributed
for the New Year included that year’s zodiac animal or traditional New Year’s
decorations such as kagami mochi (stacked rice cakes), while those marking
the doll’s festival or other spring festival incorporated hina dolls or peach
blossoms. Other surimono function like calendars, humorously incorporating

Shellfish Gathering / Katsushika Hokusai

numbers identifying the long and short months of the lunar year within theBlack Dog Looking Backpicture, or as parodies that depict figures from history or literature in
unrelated contexts.
We hope you enjoy these extravagant and exquisite surimono in which
wealthy merchants of the Edo period took such pleasure.

矢場の女／菱川宗理

Woman Looking Up at a Mountain / Katsushika Hokusai
角かくしする芸妓／葛飾北斎
Geisha Wearing Bridal Headwear
六歌仙／葛飾北斎
The Six Poetry Immortals / Katsushika Hokusai
雛飾り／葛飾北斎
Girls’ Festival Decorations / Katsushika Hokusai
潮干狩／葛飾北斎
鳥居と美人と富士／葛飾北斎
Shrine Gate, Beauties, and Fuji / Katsushika Hokusai
大工道具と娘／葛飾北斎
Young Woman with Carpentry Tools / Katsushika Hokusai
外を見る遊女／葛飾北斎
A Prostitute Looking Outside / Katsushika Hokusai
手土産 亥／葛飾北斎
Courtesy gift: boar
柳の下の籠 午の春／葛飾北斎The Basket Beneath the Willow
振り返る黒犬／菱川宗理

Women at the Archery Ground Archery Gallery

諸芸三十六のつづき 枕拍子／菱川宗理

肉筆展示室 (Original Paintings Exhibition Room)

Block-clapping Game, from the series Thirty-six Accomplishments / Hishikawa

野人対瓶花／葛飾北斎
Farmer and Peony / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
月下猟夫／葛飾北斎

Sōri
諸芸三十六のつづき 謡／菱川宗理
Noh Chanting, from the series Thirty-six Accomplishments / Hishikawa Sōri
大黒と娘／菱川宗理
Daikoku and a Young Woman
福寿草／菱川宗理
Adonis / Hishikawa Sōri
炉端の母と子（明治期複製）／葛飾北斎
Mother and Children by the Hearth (Meiji period reproduction) / Katsushika
Hokusai
碁盤人形（明治期複製）
Puppeteer Holding Puppet on Go Board (Meiji period reproduction) /Katsushika Hokusai
盆画（明治期複製）／葛飾北斎
Tray Picture (Meiji period reproduction) / Katsushika Hokusai
元禄歌仙貝合 花貝（明治期複製）／葛飾北斎
Flower Shells, from the series Genroku Poetry Immortals Shell-matchingGame (Meiji period reproduction) / Katsushika Hokusai
四性ノ内 源 小烏丸の一腰（明治期複製）／葛飾北斎
Minamoto (Crow, Sword, and Plum Blossoms), from the series Four Great
Clans of Japan (Meiji period reproduction) / Katsushika Hokusai四性ノ内 橘 普門品 菊水鎧（明治期複製）／葛飾北斎
Tachibana (Fumonbon Sutra and Armor with Chrysanthemum-and-waterDesign), from the series Four Great Clans of Japan (Meiji period reproduction)/ Katsushika Hokusai
川沿いの芸妓／蹄斎北馬
Geisha Along the River / Teisai Hokuba
内裏雛／柳川重信
Emperor and Empress Dolls / Yanagawa Shigenobu
能十五番 白髭／魚屋北渓
Shirahige, from the series Fifteen Noh Plays / Totoya Hokkei
桃園連番つづき 張良／魚屋北渓

A hunter under the white moon / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
杣人と雁／葛飾北斎
Woodcutters and wild geese / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
夕顔棚納涼／葛飾北斎
Enjoying the cool evening breeze / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
七小町／葛飾北斎
Various of Onono Komachi / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
黒い着物を着た美人／葛飾北斎
Standing beauty / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple tawaraya sōri Ⅲ
月下美人立姿／蹄斎北馬
Beauty Woman / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple Teisai Hokuba
桜下太夫立姿／蹄斎北馬Tayū under the cherry blossoms / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple Teisai Hokuba
太夫立姿／大山北李Beautiful woman from Yoshiwara / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple ŌyamaHokuri
潮干狩／抱亭五清Clamming / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple Hōtei Gosei
雪の信濃路／葛飾北斎
Snowy landscape of Shinano / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
ほととぎす聞く美人読書／葛飾北斎
Beauty, Listening Little Cuckoo / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
猿橋橋上角兵衛獅子／葛飾北斎
Performance on Saruhashi Bridge / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
鍾馗／葛飾北斎
Shōki, the Demon Slayer / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
大原女と馬／蹄斎北馬
A Woman from Ohara and Her Horse / Painted by Hokusai’s disciple Teisai
Hokuba
河骨図／葛飾北斎
Water Lily / Painted by Katsushika Hokusai
富士越龍（複製）／葛飾北斎
Dragon Flying Over Mount Fuji (reproduction) / Katsushika Hokusai

The Noh Play Chōryō, from the series A Set for the Momozono Poetry Club /祭屋台展示室 (Festival Floats Exhibition Room)Totoya Hokkei

東町祭屋台天井絵
The Higashimachi neighborhood float
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企画展示室２ (Exhibition Room 2)
絵本狂歌山満多山／葛飾北斎
Mountains Upon Mountains: An Illustrated Book of Comic Poems / Katsushika
Hokusai
画本東都遊／葛飾北斎
Picture Book of Outings in the Eastern Capital / Katsushika Hokusai
東都勝景一覧／葛飾北斎
Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance / Katsushika Hokusai
潮来絶句集／葛飾北斎
A Collection of Short Poems in Chinese from Itako / Katsushika Hokusai
絵本隅田川両岸一覧／葛飾北斎
Picture Book of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance / KatsushikaHokusai
五十鈴川狂歌車／葛飾北斎
A Wagonload of Comic Poems from the Isuzu River / Katsushika Hokusai

Dragon鳳凰
Phoenix
上町祭屋台天井絵
The Kanmachi neighborhood float
男浪
Masculine Waves
女浪
Feminine Waves