資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Sjinagawa Kanagawa |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) In this print, the man on the right looks dumbfounded as he watches the man on the left do a dance along the wharf at Shinagawa. The man on the left may be mimicking the chonkina dance (a strip version of rock, paper, and scissors), which was then in fashion in the foreign settlement. The robe he is wearing has a pattern of sparrows, whose chirping was transcribed chon-chon. Kanagawa Station recalls the legend of Urashima. It could be that a fox had changed himself into its protagonist, Urashima Taro. 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 |
10582 |
