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Famous Places of the Toukaidou Shinagawa |
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Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) Shinagawa, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou In this picture, a view of a famous cherry-blossom viewing place Goten-yama is illustrated. It is told that the cherry trees were planted from Kanbun era (1661-73) at Goten-yama and by the late Edo period, there were 600 cherry-blossom trees. Scenes such as the people enjoying party under cherry-blossom in full bloom and a young waitress from teahouse accosting the customers are illustrated. The lively atmosphere of cherry-blossom viewing season is illustrated. 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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