資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Seki |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The print for Shono portrays two women carrying baskets. A large number of white mushrooms are growing under a pine tree, and could be parodying the hakuu (literally “white rain,” meaning a sudden shower) noted on the print for Kameyama in the Hoeido edition of Hiroshige's Toukaidou series. The statue of the bodhisattva Jizo (Ksitigarbha) in Seki was said to be oldest one in Japan. Wearing an expression of blissful contentment, it attracted the devotion of people traveling the Toukaidou from early times. A popular song suggested putting a long-sleeved kimono on the Jizo of Seki and make the Great Buddha of Nara a groom. 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 |
10628 |
