資料名 |
Ejiri from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada Production date: c.1836 (c. Tempou 7) Ejiri, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway At the background of this picture, the Shimizu Port is illustrated and many sailboats dock around the port. In a distant, Mt. Ashitaka and mountain range of Izu are seen. The elongated sand spit illustrated at the right is Miho no Matsubara, a place famous with Hagoromo Densetsu (Legend of the Feathered Robe of Celestial Beauty: A story similar to “The Swan Meiden”.). In front, a woman in a travel outfit holding small luxurious lacquered ware box is illustrated. 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 |
10353 |
