資料名 |
Kakegawa, Wading Through the Forty-eight Fords along the Akiha Road, from the series “Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway” |
解説 |
Utagawa Hiroshige 1855 At the west side of Kakegawa post station, there was a junction that the approach to the Akiha Shrine was deviated from the Toukaidou. Akiha Shrine was known as the fire prevention shrine and worshipped by many followers during the Edo period. The “Forty-eight Fords” in the title indicate the Mikura River and as depicted in the picture, people can cross this river by walk. People had to cross several fords by walk, in order to get to Akiha Shrine. 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 |
10288 |
