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Famous Places of the Toukaidou Eight Views of Kanazawa |
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Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) Eight Views of Kanazawa, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou In this picture, today’s Kanazawa Ward of Yokohama City’s eight famous landscapes, Kanazawa Hakkei are all illustrated. The eight views of Kanazawa are “Night Rain at Koizumi”, “Evening Bell at Shoumyou”, “Returning Sails at Ottomo”, “Hazy Morning Sunlight at Susaki”, “Autumn Moon at Seto”, “Wild Geese Alighting at Hiragata”, “Sunset at Nojima”, and “Evening Snow at Uchikawa”. At the right blow the sign of “Myoujin” that indicates the Seto Mishima Myoujin (Seto Shrine) is indicated. 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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