資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Ishibe |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The Tsuchiyama Station print is a picture of a teahouse interior. The two guests sitting on the bench are surprised when a woman wearing heavy make-up comes to offer them tea. Her kimono has a pattern of a bull's eye arrow, which stands for yaba (“arrow-place”), an argot term for brothels. Ishibe calls to mind the story of the love-suicide by Choemon, the proprietor of a kimono sash store, and Ohan, the daughter of the owner of the Shinanoya store next door, in the joruri (puppet-theater) play of Chikamatsu titled Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami. It was famous as the location of the inn where the two first met when staying there. The pair in the print could be Ohan and Choemon. 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 |
10632 |
