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Famous Places of the Toukaidou Shichiri-ga-hama Beach |
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Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) Shichiri-ga-hama Beach, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou The view from the Shichiri-ga-hama Beach was often used as the most beloved landscape motif since the two of the most famous places, the Enoshima Island and the Mt. Fuji can be seen from this beach. A town on the right, situated about the gate of the Enoshima Island was Katase. This town was flourished with many visitors to the island and many inns and souvenir shops stood along the approach. A hilly island situated on the left of Katase is the Cape Koyurugi. 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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