資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Kyoto Sanjou Ohashi Bridge |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Two men at Kusatsu post station are eating petite size local sweet, “Uba-ga-mochi (Antie’s Dumpling)”, the dumpling with the sweet bean paste inside. It seems two men already ate quite a lot of the dumplings, and especially a man sitting on the right seems full. At Kyoto, a woman standing at the Sanjou Ohashi Bridge, the destination of the Toukaidou Highway, is “Oharame”, the women venders unique to Kyoto region. They dressed in a distinctive ways such as wrapping a towel like cloth called tenugui around their head. They sold their products, such as fire wood and they put their products on their head as they walked around. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ). |
資料番号 |
10636 |
