資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Nihonbashi Bridge / Kawasaki |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshikazu During the Edo period, there was a fish market by the Nihonbashi Bridge, the starting point of the Toukaidou Highway. The local Edo people’s favorite was bonito. It seems like a kite is stealing a man’s bonito. The background scene of Kawasaki is “The Rokugou Ferry” located by the Tamagawa River. People used ferryboat to cross the river, when there is no bridge around there. A man is Hirai Gompachi (In kabuki plays, the name turns into Shirai Gompachi）who has a connection to this region and he is known as a master swordsman. However, in this picture he was running away from a dog. 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 |
10581 |
