資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Mitsuke |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The print for Mitsuke Station shows a boat crossing the Tenryu River. The Hoeido edition of Hiroshige's series of Toukaidou prints presents a placid scene at the same spot, with boats beached on a sandbar in the river. In contrast, this print depicts frightened travelers in a rocking boat. In correspondence with the place name, which means “dancing slope,” the Maisaka Station print shows people dancing. In reality, during the Grand Drum Festival held at the Maisaka Kisa Shrine (in the city of Hamamatsu), people walk through the street doing a “hand dance.” This might be the subject of this print. 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 |
10609 |
