資料名 |
東海名所 改正道中記 新橋 |
解説 |
Utagawa Hiroshige III 1875 (Meiji 8) Shinbashi was not the post station along the Toukaidou Highway, but it is illustrated in this series since a new station was built with the opening of the railway. In 1872, the first railway of Japan opened between Yokohama station (Today’s Sakuragi-chou Station) and Shinbashi station. By the opening of the railway, two brick-made two-storied station buildings and passages connected the buildings to station platforms were constructed. This western style station became a new attraction as the symbol of modernization, and it often became the motif of kaika-e, or the ukiyo-e that illustrates the sceneries of newly flourished modern culture of the early Meiji period. Shinbashi was not the post station along the Toukaidou Highway, but it is illustrated in this series since a new station was built with the opening of the railway. In 1872, the first railway of Japan opened between Yokohama station (Today’s Sakuragi-chou Station) and Shinbashi station. By the opening of the railway, two brick-made two-storied station buildings and passages connected the buildings to station platforms were constructed. These buildings were designed by an American architect engineer Richard P. Bridgens, who also designed Yokohama station. This western style station became a new attraction as the symbol of modernization, and it often became the motif of kaika-e, or the ukiyo-e that illustrates the sceneries of newly flourished modern culture of the early Meiji period. |
資料番号 |
10522 |
