Comment - Uncut single sheet omocha-e, with nine classical kite designs for Edo kites or Edo Kaku kites.

The designs are as follows:

No.  1	grim warrior design
No.  2	A scene with a warrior of the historical tale "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a story about the three warring kingdoms in China during the third century, often played in Kabuki theatres.
No.  3	A grumpy old man with a black cap addressing a blushing younger one.
No.  4	Red faced Kintaro with his foster mum Yamauba
No.  5	Daruma face design
No.  6	Another scene with a warrior of the historical tale "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a story about the three warring kingdoms in China during the third century, often played in Kabuki theatres.
No. 7	'Fierce Monster' with small horns design
No.  8	An enraged old man who snatched away a Go game board
No.  9	A depiction of the widespread story of the "Rabbit in the Moon". The curly waves are to be intended as 'smoke'. Because of self sacrificing, the rabbit (hidden) is sent as a reward to the Moon by Teishakuten. Teishakuten is in 'Western eyes' the Higher Supreme Celestial Being.

Please compare this print with the toy print from KUNIAKI-II and YOSHIFUJI, as well as the small edo kite chiyogami from an unknown woodblock artist of the Meiji-era or KUNITOSHIs omocha-e print.

Maybe this omocha-e (toy print) is a KUNITOSHI print. Compare the remark in the biography about SHIMIZU Kahei.

Series - ~


Artist -  see Biography


Signature - SHIMIZU Kahei (清水嘉兵衛 or 清水嘉兵工), lower left margin; maybe only the editors signature

Publisher -  Tsukihi gakō de-waza hito (月日画工出技人)? print studio in Tokiyo, Kanda Nabecho 2 (神田鍋町二番地)

Image Size - 24.6 X 35.1cm  (9 11/16" x 13 8/9"), trimmed sheet


Condition - single sheet; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock); omocha-e (toy print); vertical ôban (ôban tate-e); trimmed sheet