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Subject:text on humorous print
Posted By: francis minvielle Mon, Jun 29, 2026 IP: 82.226.118.25

Please translate what is written in the drinking sake scene around the drinking man



Subject:Re: text on humorous print
Posted By: I.Nagy Tue, Jun 30, 2026

Title,
三十二相 追加
百面相
Thirty-two Physiognomies and Supplement to Hundred Physiognomies

Top right,
浄瑠璃  Jōruri
あらわれはいでたる武智光秀
Araware wa idetaru Takechi Mitsuhide
He has appeared, Takechi Mitsuhide

Top left,
たれかみそふで
みにならぬ つま喰い
Dare ka misō de mi ni naranu - tsumamigui
Will no one get fed up with this - Snacking*
(A play on words based on the fact that "tsuma" means "wife" in the first half of the word "tsumamigui ca. wife sees and eats)

Signature,
清親筆 - Painted by Kiyochika
Kobayashi Kiyochika


Low, right,
オット、オット  otto, otto,
あり舛 - -    arimasu, arimasu
Oops, oops,
There is , there is (the sake cup)
(arimasu あります is "there is", あり舛
is also arimasu, but here the masu is the name of a kind of sake cup)

Signature,
方円舎 Hoensha  -Pseudonym of Kiyochika

Low, left,
途中の出合
Tochu no deai  - An encounter along the way
コレハ - おひさしぶり - Kore wa, kore wa, o-hisashiburi - Wow, wow, it's been a while!

Signature,
清親筆 -Painted by Kiyochika

Regards,
I.Nagy





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