資料名 |
Fujisawa, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou (Tsutaya version) |
解説 |
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige This series is called Tsutaya version of the Toukaidou according to the name of the publisher. The scenery is not the Fujisawa Post Station but the Yotsuya, a Tateba or the rest spot between the post stations. Yotsuya was a place where a fork existed that the Tokaidou highway and the road to Mt. Oyama were divided. Therefore, this place was usually crowded with the pilgrims to Mt. Oyama. Utagawa Hiroshige Kansei 9~Ansei 5 (1799~1858) Hiroshige was a pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro. He also studied varieties of painting styles from Kano school, nan-ga (southern Chinese painting style), and Shijō school. He was active as an ukiyo-e artist from Bunsei 1 to his death (1818~1858). He first produced pictures of beautiful women, Kabuki actors and worriers, but from the Tempō era he was acknowledged as a leading landscape artist. He published many pictures of famous places such as the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”. Hiroshige’s the other fortes were kachoga (picture of birds and flowers) and animal pictures. |
資料番号 |
10215 |
