資料名 |
Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway Numazu |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II Production date: 1865 (Keio 1) Numazu: A Distant View of Mt. Ashigara The mountain illustrated at the upper left side of picture is Mt. Fuji and as the title suggests, the mountains next to Mt. Fuji are Mt. Ashigara. Moving eyes to the below, a waitress tries to attract a traveler to the teahouse, the palanquin porters, and pilgrim are illustrated. A pilgrim shouldering a Buddhist Statue on his back is “rokujyu-roku-bu”, and he is on his way to visit 66 temples and dedicates 66 scrolls of Hokke-kyou (The Lotus Sutra) to each temples. The artist seal of this series is “Ryushou-ga (Picture by Ryushou)” and Ryushou is the name of Utagawa Hiroshige II. After Hiroshige I died in 1859, his pupil Shigenobu succeeded Hiroshige’s name and became Hiroshige II. Later, he succeeded the Hirosige I’s style in his work but by 1865, he changed artist name as Ryushou. “Fifty-three Stations of Toukaidou” was published in the year he changed his name and the series consisted of 56 works. |
資料番号 |
10473 |
