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Shigitachi-zawa of Oiso, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) “Even a person free of passion would be moved to sadness: autumn evening in a marsh where snipe fly up” by Saigyou In this picture the landscape of Shigitachi-zawa (Shigitachi-zawa means a stream where snipes fly up.) of Oiso is illustrated. This place has a connection with a famous monk and poet, Saigyo from the Heian period. During the early Edo period, the Shigitatsu-an, a haikai poetry school was opened at this land and attracted many haiku poets. The indication “Saigyou-an” at the lower right is considered as the En’i-dou (En’i is Saigyou’s holy name), where Saigyou’s sitting statue is located. This is an e-baisho (anthology of the seventeen syllables Japanese haiku poems with related pictures) that a variety of poems written by the notable contemporary poets from the haikai poetry circles are allotted with the pictures of famous places of the Toukaidou, as a hokku-shu (anthology hokku or haiku poems ) appears in pictures. This series was the changed title version of “Toukaidou Meisho Hokku-shu (The Hokku-shu of Famous Places of the Toukaidou)”, published by Eiraku-ya Jousuke in 1851, and originally the format of this picture was hanpon or book style. However when this version was made, the landscapes of Edo to Izu were re-edited as a gajou (folded picture book) format, thus the readers can appreciate each landscape as the independent picture. When Hiroshige produced this work, he was also commissioned to paint nikuhitsu-ga (paintings) from Tendou clan. Therefore the expressions such as the composition with natural dimension and bluish pale touch of the color in this series are influenced from the painting expressions. |
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