資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Okabe |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) At Okabe, a scene of teahouse of Utsuyama Tateba (a rest spot between post stations) located between Okabe post station and Mariko post station is illustrated. The specialty of this teahouse is ju-dango, small dumplings, and a traveler is surprised to see the other customer is catching the flying dumplings by his mouth. At Shimada, the ferry of Oi River is illustrated. If a traveler wanted to cross the river, a man carried the traveler without using a boat. In this scene, a man who tries to carry a woman sumou wrestler falls down since she is too heavy to carry by himself. The woman’s hair style is called “Shimada”, and this is play on words since it is same with the name of the post station. 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 |
10602 |
