資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Odawara |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) At Odawara Station, a traveler walking in the rain wearing a raincoat (kappa) is stunned to be confronted by a water imp (different characters that also transcribe as kappa). A kappa guardian dog is reportedly enshrined in Hakusan Shrine, in Higashi-cho, Odawara. The print for Mishima depicts the Otauchi rite, which is still being performed at the Mishima Grand Shrine. The faithful hold wooden rice ladles in their hands and make gestures symbolizing a rich harvest. 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 |
10590 |
