資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Nissaka |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) This print depicts the yonaki-ishi (night-crying stone), one of the attractions at Nissaka Station. Legend had it that a baby born from a pregnant woman who was murdered cried under this stone, and travelers reportedly stopped to inspect it. However, those in this parody seem to find it annoying, and one of them is on the verge of striking it with his staff. Fukuroi reportedly derived its name from the geographical features of its situation; it was ringed by hills, in the middle of which were a rural district and a big spring, as if at the bottom of a sack (fukuro). The print portrays a traveler frightened by a scarecrow that is standing in a rice paddy and aiming an arrow at him. The local to the left with a hoe in hand seems to be telling the traveler to calm down. 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 |
10606 |
