Comment - Charming triptych showing traditional New Year's games. At right, two beauties play Hanetsuki, a game similar to badminton with decorative battledores and a feathered shuttlecock, which hangs in the air between them. The paddle at right depicts a kabuki actor in the lead role of the play "Shibaraku". Just behind them, a young boy holds a lavender Edo kite ("Edo-kaku", "江戸角") with a Kanji character on it (Kanji kite, "ji tako", "字凧"). At left, two girls bounce a colorful ball back and forth. New Year's holiday arrangements of kadomatsu pine and bamboo frame the scene.

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Signature - Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延) on the lower left; with Otoshidama ring seal


Publisher - Shimizuya Tsunejiro 清水屋堂次郎


Image Size - 34.9 x 70.5cm (13 3/4" x 27 3/4") + margins


Condition - triptych, three attached panels ; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock);  each panel vertical ôban (ôban tate-e);