資料名 |
Mariko from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada Production date: c.1836 (c. Tempou 7) Mariko, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway At the background of this picture, the scene of travelers eating the Mariko post station’s specialty tororo-jiru (grated yam soup) is illustrated. Tororo-jiru was a popular food from the old time in Japan, and a famous haiku poet of Edo period Matsuo Bashou even wrote a poem about this food. Since there is a container filled with water to wash the sake cup, this woman is considered as a courtesan attending a banquet. 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 |
10355 |
