資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Minakuchi |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The print for Sakanoshita is the scene in which the bottom falls out of a wood-fired bathing tub in the Yaji and Kita on the Road comedy. In Jippensha Ikku's Shank’s Mare Tour of the Toukaidou Highway, the same scene is set at Odawara Station. Minakuchi was famous for its kanpyo (dried strips of gourd). White gourd strips are hanging out to dry on a fence before a house. The man leading the horse is astounded at the big object in the form of a face. This is actually the fruit of the calabash (whose Japanese name translates “moon-face”). Kanpyo was made by peeling off strips of calabash. 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 |
10631 |
