資料名 |
Futyu from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada Production date: c.1836 (c. Tempou 7) There are many rivers within the Toukaidou Highway and if there was no bridge around, travelers crossed the river either by boats or carried by men porters. The Oi River illustrated at the background of Fuchu was the river of “Kachi-watashi”, and men porters carried travelers to cross them over the river by walk. A woman in front is in an outfit of baggage porter but there was not such a porter in reality. This woman porter is a product of Kunisada’s imagination. 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 |
10354 |
