Shinpan Kuchikara Dehaudai Oshiegusa (Teachings on Whatever Comes to Mind, Newly Produced)

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Shinpan Kuchikara Dehaudai Oshiegusa [Teachings on Whatever Comes to Mind, Newly Produced]

Hyakunokuchi, [Nukemaru?] [edited by]. 

Kyōto: Akitaya Tōroku, [ca. Tenpo period (1830-1845)?].

A comical print recording a wave of unsolicited advice ("teachings") on men and women from a rambling author, pictured yawning on the right. In the lower section of the print the writer complains that his wife should read a kyōka poem, to which she replies that these days it is more in vogue to read one's husband's nose hairs (meaning "to lead a man around by the nose"/"play him like a fiddle"). The text ends with a kyōka poem by the publisher. A scarce piece of ephemera from the hanmoto Akitaya Tōroku. No records of this work were traced in major Japanese library databases at the time of cataloguing.

One leaf, woodblock-printed on one side, complete. Light rubbing. Central (vertical and horizontal) folds. Small hole to central fold intersection. 30.2 x 43.4 cm.

Shinpan Kuchikara Dehaudai Oshiegusa (Teachings on Whatever Comes to Mind, Newly Produced)
Price: $1,460.00 (USD)