資料名 |
58th: Saikyou (West Kyoto): Ohashi Bridge at Sanjou, “Futon kite netaru sugata ya Higashi-yama”, from the series “Famous Places along Toukai: Chronicle of the Renewed Japan” |
解説 |
Utagawa Hiroshige III 1875 (Meiji 8) The composition of this picture, by situating the Sanjou Ohashi Bridge in front and the Higashi-yama Mountain in the back is similar to that of Hiroshige I. The man illustrated at the left edge on the bridge in a black uniform is a postman. When the postal service started in 1871, postman as illustrated in this picture delivered mails. The title came from a haiku poetry written by Hattori Ransetsu, who was a pupil of Matsuo Bashou (a great haiku poet from the early Edo period), and it expresses that the snow remains on top of Mt. Higashi-yama at the time of sunset looks like a sleeping man putting on a blanket. |
資料番号 |
10579 |
