資料名 |
Fujieda from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada Production date: c.1836 (c. Tempou 7) Fujieda from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway At Fujieda, the scene of reassigning the baggage to the next porters is illustrated. At the Toukaidou Highway, porters and horses are basically changed at every post station. The building illustrated at right is the warehouse and the changing procedure is taking place in this building. A young lady wearing a kimono and ornamental hairpin of the cherry-blossom pattern is seems like from a rich family, This series of beauties with the landscapes of the Toukaidou Highway on the background was produced by Utagawa Kunisada and it consists of 56 works. This series illustrated the scenes from the Nihonbashi Bridge to Narumi post station and Yokkaichi post station on its background. The distinctive about this series is all the works were basically referred the representative work of Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Fifty-three Stations of Toukaidou Highway” series of Hoeidou edition while adding few changes. Although this series is known with more familiar title of “Kunisada’s Toukaidou with Beauties”, our museum adopted the title written on the cover “Beauties with the Views of Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou”. |
資料番号 |
10357 |
