UKIYO-E CARICATURES Edited by NORIKO BRANDL and SEPP LINHART = BEITRÄGE ZUR JAPANOLOGIE Band 41 (BzJ 41) # TABLE OF CONTENTS # Noriko BRANDL and Sepp LINHART - Introduction: The Study of 19th Century Caricatures on Ukiyo-e ## Part One: Genres of Ukiyo-e Caricatures ## TAKAHASHI Noriko - The Meaning of Caricature in Yellow-Bound Books HARA Michio - Humor in the Kabuki Death Portrait AKAMA Ryō - Satirical and Humorous Pictures of Chūshingura INAGAKI Shin'ichi - On the Parody of Battle Prints Marianne SIMON-OIKAWA - Notorious Moji-e: Japanese Graffi ti in the Edo Period ## Part Two: Caricatures at the End of the Edo-Period ## YUASA Yoshiko - How Were the Riddle-Like Caricatures Perceived after the Tenpō Reforms? - A Look at Some Examples of Interpretation IWAKIRI Yuriko - Censorship and Nishiki-e Print Publication in the Tenpō Reform Era - Instances from the Works of Utagawa Kuniyoshi Sepp LINHART - Kuniyoshi’s Fan Prints of the 1840s Noriko BRANDL - Nishiki-e Caricatures of Kuniyoshi during the Last Stage of his Life SHIMIZU Isao - Hirokage Utagawa’s Picture of the Great Battle between the Vegetable and Fish Armies: A Historical Study of Expression and an Analysis of its Origins TOMIZAWA Tatsuzo - ‘Topic Prints’ in Bakumatsu Japan ## Part Three: Caricatures from the Meiji Period ## NAGURA Tetsuzō - Boshin War Caricature Prints in the Context of World History: Refl ections on the People’s Thought in the Formative Years of the Modern Japanese Nation OIKAWA Shigeru - The Caricatures by Kawanabe Kyōsai in the Works of Mantei Ōga Reinhard ZÖLLNER - Kobayashi Kiyochika: Pictures as Weapons Hartmut O. ROTERMUND - Japanese and Westerners in Naichi Zakkyo-Related Caricatures Plates List of Ukiyo-e Caricatures Mentioned List of Contributors