THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 274

Beautiful Women and Fancy Dishes in Tokyo

東亰料理頗別品

Tōkyō ryōri sukoburu beppin
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 09/1871

09/1871PUBLICATION DATES

17 entriesIN THIS CATALOGUE

TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI · 月岡芳年

#1 The Owari-ya restaurant at the Kanasugi Bank

東亰料理頗別品

THE SERIES COLLECTION

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND FANCY DISHES IN TOKYO東亰料理頗別品

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金杉濱尾張屋The Owari-ya restaurant at the Kanasugi BankVIEW PRINT ↗#1The Owari-ya restaurant at the Kanasugi Bank9/1871

竹川町花月亭The Kagetsu Restaurant in the Takegawa DistrictVIEW PRINT ↗#2The Kagetsu Restaurant in the Takegawa District9/1871

釆女町醉月樓The Suigetsurō restaurant in the Uneme DistrictVIEW PRINT ↗#3The Suigetsurō restaurant in the Uneme District9/1871

南鍋町泉文The Izumibun restaurant in the Minami-nabe DistrictVIEW PRINT ↗#4The Izumibun restaurant in the Minami-nabe District9/1871

芝神明車屋The Kuruma-ya restaurant at Shiba ShimmeiVIEW PRINT ↗#5The Kuruma-ya restaurant at Shiba Shimmei9/1871

御厩河岸常盤樓The Tokiwarō restaurant at the Oumaya BankVIEW PRINT ↗#6The Tokiwarō restaurant at the Oumaya Bank9/1871

浅草壽仙樓The Jusenrō restaurant at AsakusaVIEW PRINT ↗#7The Jusenrō restaurant at Asakusa9/1871

久保町招榮亭The Shōei Restaurant in the Kubo DistrictVIEW PRINT ↗#8The Shōei Restaurant in the Kubo District9/1871

浅草甲子屋The Kinoene-ya restaurant at AsakusaVIEW PRINT ↗#9The Kinoene-ya restaurant at Asakusa9/1871

三拾間堀狐尾張The Kitsune Owari restaurant at the Sanjūkken CanalVIEW PRINT ↗#10The Kitsune Owari restaurant at the Sanjūkken Canal9/1871

今戸大七The Daishichi restaurant at ImadoVIEW PRINT ↗#11The Daishichi restaurant at Imado9/1871

音羽滝蕎麦The Takisoba restaurant at OtowaVIEW PRINT ↗#13The Takisoba restaurant at Otowa9/1871

芝金杉三島屋The Mishima-ya restaurant at Kanasugi in ShibaVIEW PRINT ↗#14The Mishima-ya restaurant at Kanasugi in Shiba9/1871

木母寺植半The Uehan restaurant at Mokubo TempleVIEW PRINT ↗#15The Uehan restaurant at Mokubo Temple9/1871

山谷八百善The Yaozen restaurant at San'yaVIEW PRINT ↗#16The Yaozen restaurant at San'ya9/1871

大音寺前田川屋The Tagawa-ya restaurant in front of Daion TempleVIEW PRINT ↗#18The Tagawa-ya restaurant in front of Daion Temple9/1871

芝口伊勢源The Isegen restaurant at ShibaguchiVIEW PRINT ↗#19The Isegen restaurant at Shibaguchi9/1871

The original print numbers are retained. Unsupported entries #12 and #17 have been omitted; the gallery contains 17 illustrated designs. Collaborator names are preserved for each entry.

About the Series

This page attempts to catalog all known prints in Yoshitoshi's series 'Tōkyō ryōri sukoburu beppin (東亰料理頗別品 - Beautiful Women and Fancy Dishes in Tōkyō)'.

The title is given a wide range of translations, depending on how literal - and discreet - the translator wishes to be; in the original Japanese it seems to have a number of potential double meanings which are difficult to capture in English. ryōri means 'food', 'dish', 'management' etc.; sukoburu means 'extremely', and beppin is a somewhat vulgar word meaning 'beautiful woman'. So one plausible translation is 'beautiful women and fancy dishes of Tōkyō'.

The title of each individual print is in the cartouche to the left of the series title cartouche; the location is given at the top, and the establishment at the bottom.

The series dates from the middle of Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about thirty-two. It thus dates from about fourteen years before his well-known masterpieces such as his great series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892), and "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" (often called simply "Thirty-Six Ghosts") (1889-1892).

The prints in this series are collaborations between Yoshitoshi and various of his students, including:

Toshihide
Toshikage
Toshimaro
Toshinobu
Toshitsugu
Toshikazu

Publication details

Dates: 9/1871
Size: Ōban
Signed:
Seals: Unread
Publishers:
Block carvers:

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has two almost-complete sets of this series. One (Accession Number 11.37704, etc) seems to be a different edition from the other (Accession Number 11.39818, etc); the former, which is printed in brighter colours (in some cases, slightly garish) appears to be the earlier.

Judging by the printers' seals, they seem to have been printed by different publishers, although the publisher of the supposed second edition has not yet been identified.

Catalogue references and numbering

The original print numbers are retained. Unsupported entries #12 and #17 have been omitted; the gallery contains 17 illustrated designs. Collaborator names are preserved for each entry.

An early catalogue of this series was Keyes' thesis:

	Roger. S. Keyes, "Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and
		Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
		Cinncinnati, 1982

where it appears as series #274.

Keyes listed 17 prints in this series. The detailed Sakai catalogue also lists 17 distinct designs, all represented in this gallery. The unsupported entries formerly numbered #12 and #17 have been omitted, while the remaining print numbers have been retained.

This page (and list) is not necessarily complete; the series is not well documented, and there may be yet other prints which have not yet come to our attention. If you know of any prints from this series which aren't listed here, or have either i) information about any errors on the page, ii) better images than the ones below, or iii) missing information about individual prints (e.g. publisher, exact date) please let us know.