資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Totsuka |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) In the Edo period, mention of Totsuka brought to mind the famous story of a man with huge testicles. In this print, the raccon dog seated in the eight-mat room is vying with him. In the Hiratsuka Station print, a man set a trap in an attempt to catch the fox (the mouse can be seen inside), but was tricked and stripped of all his belongings instead. Hiratsuka is the setting of several folktales about mischievous foxes, with names such as Sanya and Monzaburo. 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 |
10586 |
