資料名 |
Kusatsu, from the series “ Toukaidou ” |
解説 |
Utagawa Yoshimori 1863 A view at a tea house serving Ubaga-mochi (rice cake with boiled red beans sweetened), a local delicacy of Kusatsu Post Station. It looks like the procession, led by a guide, is crossing the bridge and travelers let the procession pass by keeling down on the ground. This series was published with the event of the Fourteenth Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi’s procession from Tokyo to Kyoto (Shogun’s official visit to Emperor) that took place in 1863 (Bunkyu 3) and it is known as “Gojouraku Toukaidou (Samurai’s procession along the Toukaidou Highway)”. Iemochi’s visit was an unusual event since last time Tokugawa Shogun visited Emperor was 229 years ago when the Third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu visited Emperor. Therefore this event got a huge attention from the people of Edo. This series was very popular that 162 works were produced within this series. Since 16 artists from Utagawa School were involved for the production, it is considered that the publisher wanted to produce many works within a short period of time. |
資料番号 |
10449 |
