資料名 |
Chiryu, The Historical Site of the Iris Field at Yatsuhashi Village, from the series “Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Utagawa Hiroshige 1855 Yatsuhashi was known with a scene from “The Tale of Ise”, a collection of waka poems written in the Heian period. In the story, a nobleman who was struck with the beauty of blooming irises at Yatsuhashi, shed tears thinking about his beloved wife, whom he left at Kyoto. As depicted in this picture, there were no irises bloomed at Yatsuhashi in the Edo period, and agricultural fields extend. Only a stone pillar indicated that this place used to be a historic site. The series, “Views of Famous Places of Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou” was produced in 1855, when Hiroshige was 59 years old, and this is his last Toukaidou series. This series is also called “The Toukaidou in Vertical Pictures” since it is produced as the series of vertical pictures. It is considered the vertical composition is not suitable for landscape pictures since it is difficult to find the good balance in the space. However Hiroshige, the master of landscape pictures used this composition in a distinctive way, created the masterpiece series. |
資料番号 |
10301 |
