資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Kyouto |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Otsu Station was famed for rice cake of Miidera Temple called chikara(muscular)-mochi. “With chikara-mochi, you can't lose,” went a popular saying. The print shows the famous Gozu Tenno of Otsu (gozu means “bull-headed,” but this is actually the name of a deva that does not have the head of a bull) performing for travelers by lifting huge stones. The print for Kyoto, the end of the Toukaidou, is a picture of a wedding scene, as if to celebrate the end of the journey. But something seems odd about it. The groom appears to be drunk after downing many cups of sake. The bride, in contrast, steadily digs her chopsticks into a big bowl of rice, with the rice tub in front of her. The woman serving the two looks flustered. 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 |
10635 |
