資料名 |
Pilgrimage to Enoshima Island in March, from the series Fashionable Plays of Four Seasons |
解説 |
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro 1801-1804 (Kyouwa Era), Publisher: Tsurushin This work is the series of twelve works from January to December, and the titles are all the same. Right now, nine works of the series are discovered. This work illustrates a wife of a merchant followed by a young male attendant goes to a pilgrimage to Enoshima Island. The woman wears straw hut, a coat with a black collar and an arm cover and the attendant carries their luggage by using a balance. They are dressed in the typical journey fashion of the time. This particular work is very rare and not many museums own this work, therefore even though there are some parts repaired, it is considered one of the most important ukiyo-e works for Fujisawa city. Kitagawa Utamaro Horeki 3~Bunka 3 (1753~1806) Utamaro was a pupil of Toriyama Sekien, and active during as an ukiyo-e artist from An’ei 4 till his death (1775-1806). First, he worked under the artist names of Kitagawa Toyoaki or Toyoaki. Later, around the beginning of Tenmei era, he changed name to Utamaro, and soon changed the Kanji character of Kitagawa to the presently known version. First he produced Shusho style’s Kabuki actor pictures and then produced pictures of beautiful women with Shigemasa and Kiyonaga style. Later around Kansei 3, with the sponsorship of the famous publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo’s, he completed new style, the half-length portraits of beautiful women. Utamaro became the leading artist of the pictures of beautiful women, by pursuing the ideal beauty of women, and expressing the full range of their inner lives and emotions. |
資料番号 |
10022 |
