資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Fuchu |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) At Okitsu Station, Hotei, a deity from the Seven Lucky Gods symbolize good luck and a child are crossing the Okitsu River. The model of Hotei is a historical figure, Chinese Buddhist monk and it is said, he carried a big bag to put donated goods and food in it. In this picture, he is carrying a bag and putting it over his head to avoid it to be wet. At Fuchu Station, a gigantic warm is jumping out from ground. This picture might suggests “Mimizu izuru” (The warms appear from earth around the transitional season of spring to summer) from the Seventy-two Pentads in East Asian calendars. However, this description is too exaggerated. 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 |
10600 |
