Utagawa Hiroshige
c.1840 (c.Tempou 11), Publisher: Sanoya Kihee

This series of ukiyo-e is called “The Toukaidou with Kyouka Poems” since a kyouka poem is assorted to every ukiyo-e picture. The Daigiri Biridge (present day Yugyouji Bridge) and the First Torii Gate of Enoshima Island seeing from Yugyouji Temple are illustrated, which is the opposite composition of Houeidou version. The mountain on the background is the Mt. Oyama. The containers a figure on the bridge is carrying are omiki-waku, the containers carrying water and sake from Mt. Oyama, and symbolizing the pilgrimage to Mt. Oyama. A custom of post station such as the kousatsuba, a place to stand the signboards at the end of bridge is also illustrated.

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.