資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Ishiyakushi |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The name “Ishiyakushi” derives from statue of Yakushi (Bhaisajyaguru, the healing Buddha) carved out of stone (ishi) by the eminent monk Kukai. The print depicts not Kukai but a kanjin monk of the type who solicits contributions for religious purposes. At the vestibule of the inn, he has just handed one of the innkeeper women what looks to be a bundle of hemp, an amulet from the Ise Grand Shrine. In the Kameyama print, a man hiding behind a tree is scaring the travelers by manipulating a big puppet. The long neck suggests that the doll is meant to be taken for a rokuro-kubi, a monster that can lengthen and retract its neck at will. 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 |
10625 |
