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Famous Places of the Toukaidou Enoshima Island |
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Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) Enoshima Island, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou This picture illustrates Enoshima Island at the time of low tide and the pilgrims heading to the Island are walking on a sand bar. This sand bar was used to be called as “subana”, and the name still remains today. People call the street that leads to this approach Subana-Douri (Subana Street). Today there is a bridge to cross the sea to get to the Enoshima Island on the time of high tide, but during Edo period, when there was no bridge; people crossed the sea by the ships. 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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