資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Fujieda |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Mariko was famed for its yam soup. The saying about a mountain yam turning into an eel was a metaphor for an unlikely occurrence. Eating a bowl of soup made from grated mountain yam just might foreshadow some unexpected happening. In the Edo period, the vicinity of present-day Kachikusa Bridge in Fujieda was where the Toukaidou crossed the Seto River. The river, however, was not bridged, and travelers had to wade across it. The two men in the print are blind, and the scene apparently was borrowed from the kyogen play titled Dobukatchiri 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 |
10603 |
