Playful Old Tales: An Old Cat Changing into a Monster at an Old Temple

People: Utagawa, Kuniyoshi
Time: 1847-1852
Owner Organization: Náprstek Museum

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「昔ばなしの戯猫又をへて古寺に怪をなす図」「寺西閑心」

The Actor Onoe Baikō in the Role of the Witch Cat of the Old Temple, from the series Fifty-Three Souvenirs from the Eastern Capital

People Entering into the Imperial Palace by Standing in a Line (Looking at the Imperial Palace Square)

TRAGICO-CLASSICAL PHYSIOGNOMIES 6: Yes I come, into his temple, to adore the Eternal One. (Athalie)

Soil is harden using a placing method, called "Beida-koho," in a banking construction to build a reservoir at Anyoji Temple, Kanazawa Village

Family Proverbs 2: Oh! Monster, you allow yourself to tell me that I'm an old melon, and that my hair is a wig: spare the rod and spoil the child!..

The Blue-stockings 13: － Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I’m now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... －(The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!..

Ancient History 15: Aeneas and Dido: A protective fog obscured the heavens; / And as they found themselves without an umbrella, / Leading his friend into a dark cave, / Aeneas on that beautiful day saw his ardours consummated (Aeneid. corrected by Mr. Villemain)

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

Strangers in Paris 7: A slight queue at the door of the Palais de l’Industrie

NEWS 251: Le Charivari. Obliged soon to redraw a new view of the site where the temple of Peace stood

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE (7): The singer's mother. = And to think that that miserable old skinflint of a director sulks about giving sixty thousand francs a year to an angel who sings like That!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 9: Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a siesta by the river bank

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 24: THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SPUR: This so-called former Colonel of the Papal Guard, later aide-de-camp to the Prince of Monaco, awaiting as a prize for his services a distinguished post in the Government!... he would, however, willingly accept a tabacconist's shop or a position as an inspector of [street] sweeping; besides [this] he is a gallant man like all knights of his order, for a trifle demanding satisfaction from five-year-old children, perfectly making excuses from the moment you look at him in the face

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 10: 5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: Mr Coquelet you're an unsociable being, d'you understand with your dog; that's twice when I've had 149, he jumps on the table and jumbles it all up. Your dog's and accomplice!... and you're an old cheat

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

Kaoru Higashiyama (27 years old), a non-sect activist who became critically ill after receiving a gas bullet from the riot police on the 8th, died at the Narita Red Cross Hospital on the 10th, and a funeral was held on the 14th

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 8: Below the upper vignette: A cabriolet bearing an unfortunate resemblance; Below the lower vignette: After the meeting, Auguste and Arthur stop being serious politicians and become again foolish young people..

NEWS 145: The Emperor Soulouque, having learned that a European journalist permitted himself to criticise some of the acts of his administration, arrived to sieze the guilty man and plunged him into a cooking pot full of boiling tar －All with the hope that this would serve as a lesson to this hack and that he would not write a second article against his majesty. (Official prefect of Haiti.) (Note from le Charivari) －This ingenious method to curb the deviations of the Press is recommended for the meditation of the Burgraves