資料名 |
Chronicle of a Journey to Enoshima Manaita-iwa (Cutting Board Rock) |
解説 |
Artist: Totoya Hokkei Production date: 1830-1844 (early Tempou era) No publisher’s seal In this scene, land is expressed not through the depiction of famous landscape of Manaita-iwa, or the rock looks like a cutting board, but instead, the land is expressed with the local specialty of Enoshima Island: The abalone and the abalone kasuzuke (the pickles with sake lees seasoning) in a wooden circular box. Between the local products, a Japanese smoking pipe (kiseru) and a red steel to light a fire are illustrated. Detail parts are carefully decorated: The smoking pipe’s metal shank is decorated effectively with a silver pigment and the lines of small sea shells stick to an abalone are expressed with the emboss effect. “Chronicle of a Journey to Enoshima” is a series of surimono that illustrated landscapes and products related to Enoshima Island. Surimono is high quality woodblock prints that include both kyouka poems (Comic verse composed of 31 syllables) and illustrations related to the poems. Since surimono was produced not for sale but made privately by the group of kyouka poets, the artists who produced the illustrations fully expressed their supreme talents and skills such as detailed curving techniques and high skill of the printing technique in a small format. The indications in the several works specify that there were originally 16 works in this series. However, only 14 works, “Takanawa, the starting point”, “Samezu”, “Omori”, “Kamata”, “Rokugou”, “Tsurumi”, “Kanagawa”, “Hamagawa”, “Shimo-no-miya”, “Kami-no-miya”, “Hongu”, “Chigo-ga-buchi”, “Manaita-iwa”, and “Ryudou” are currently discovered. This series was produced for the memory of kyouka poetry circle’s journey to Enoshia Island. The illustrations were produced by Totoya Hokkei and he was a pupil of Katsushika Hokusai. Hokkei was known for his premier talent with surimono, especially related to kyouka, and it is said his skill even surpassed that of Hokusai. |
資料番号 |
10015 |
