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Chronicle of a Journey to Enoshima Ryudou |
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Artist: Totoya Hokkei Production date: 1830-1844 (early Tempou era) No publisher’s seal The journey finally reaches to the destination and people are having a party in front of the landmark of Enoshima Island, Iwaya (A sea cave in Enoshima). There are many ukiyo-e works that illustrate the party scene of Enoshima, and this fact suggests the party actually took place quite often in Enoshima in reality. The distant views of Mt. Fuji and wave crashes are decorated with the silver pigment. “Chronicle of a Journey to Enoshima” is a series of surimono that illustrated landscapes and products related to Enoshima Island. Surimono is high quality woodblock prints that include both kyouka poems (Comic verse composed of 31 syllables) and illustrations related to the poems. Since surimono was produced not for sale but made privately by the group of kyouka poets, the artists who produced the illustrations fully expressed their supreme talents and skills such as detailed curving techniques and high skill of the printing technique in a small format. The indications in the several works specify that there were originally 16 works in this series. However, only 14 works, “Takanawa, the starting point”, “Samezu”, “Omori”, “Kamata”, “Rokugou”, “Tsurumi”, “Kanagawa”, “Hamagawa”, “Shimo-no-miya”, “Kami-no-miya”, “Hongu”, “Chigo-ga-buchi”, “Manaita-iwa”, and “Ryudou” are currently discovered. This series was produced for the memory of kyouka poetry circle’s journey to Enoshia Island. |
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