Suzuki Shūzō. Ukiyo-e Taikei, Volume 9 : Toyokuni. — [Tokyo]: Shueisha, 1975.

Title:  Toyokuni (豊国)
Series: The Great Series of Ukiyo-e, Volume 9 (浮世絵大系, Ukiyo-e Taikei)

Hardcover, cream buckram with silver lettering; white cloth spine with black and red lettering; pictorial dust jacket and pictorial slipcase; brown pictorial endpapers; size: 426 × 304 mm (oversized in-folio); printed on matte paper. Japanese-language monograph, including full-colour reproductions, commentary, and scholarly apparatus. Pagination: Blank flyleaf, [6], 66 colour plates printed on both sides (some folding), [73] 74–143 [144] pp.

Contents:

• 総説「歌川の流れ」 (“Overview: The Lineage of the Utagawa School”) — p.7, by 鈴木重三 (Suzuki Shūzō)

• 単色図版 (Monochrome Plates) — p.73

• 図版解説 (Commentary on the Plates) — p.89

• 年表 (Chronology) — p.113

• 参考文献 (References) — p.138

• 収録図版リスト (List of Plates Included) — p.140

• 原色図版 (Full-Color Plates) — p.143

Artists Covered:
Primarily Utagawa Toyokuni I [歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1769–1825), with works also by Toyohiro [豊広], Toyoharu [豊春], the second-generation Toyokuni [二代豊国], and others from the Utagawa school.

Editorial and Publishing Details:

• Editor: 鈴木重三 (Suzuki Shūzō)

• General Supervisor: 高橋誠一郎 (Takahashi Seiichirō)

• Editorial Committee: 岡畑恵三郎 (Okahata Keizaburō), 鈴木重三 (Suzuki Shūzō), 菊地貞夫 (Kikuchi Sadao)

• Production: 座右宝刊行会 (Zayūhō Kankōkai)

• Publisher: 集英社 (Shueisha)

Publication Information:

• First edition: February 10, 1975 (昭和50年2月10日)

• First edition, second printing: December 25, 1975 (昭和50年12月25日)

Printing and Binding:

• 白凰印刷株式会社 (Hakuō Insatsu Co., Ltd.)

• 三条製本株式会社 (Sanjo Binding Co., Ltd.)

• 王子製本株式会社 (Ōji Binding Co., Ltd.)

• 山田原紙パルプ株式会社 (Yamada Paper & Pulp Co., Ltd.)

• 中林写真印刷株式会社 (Nakabayashi Photo-Printing Co., Ltd.)

ISBN: 4-08-572009-3
NACSIS-CAT ID: 1371–517009–3041
Printed in Japan
© 1975 Shueisha

On page 121, the book describes plates 33 and 34, which feature double-sided fan prints from the series Fashionable Twelve Months (Imayō jūni-ka getsu, 今様十二ヶ月). Prints from this series are represented in the present collection under the numbers SVJP-0326.2020, SVJP-0362.2022, SVJP-0363.2022, SVJP-0364.2022, SVJP-0365.2022, and SVJP-0379.2022. The series was published by Ibaya Senzaburō [伊場屋仙三郎] (Japanese, active 1815–1869) in 1822 (Bunsei 5).

Toyokuni’s series Imayō jūni-ka getsu (Fashionable Twelve Months) is believed to have been produced around 1822 (Bunsei 5). Although it remains unclear whether the series was commissioned or issued for general sale, it consists of twelve fan prints, each depicting a bijin (beauty) in seasonal settings appropriate to each month. With twenty-four images printed on twelve double-sided fan sheets, the series displays careful compositional planning and a rich, consistent visual idiom.

The only other fan print here is #210 on p. 105 by Utagawa Kunimasa (歌川 国政, 1773 -1810) from the Honolulu Museum of Art: