資料名 |
Chronicle of a Journey to Enoshima Shimo-no-miya |
解説 |
Artist: Totoya Hokkei Production date: 1830-1844 (early Tempou era) No publisher’s seal In this work, two turtles and a river are illustrated in a red frame, and this picture was dedicated to a shrine . Enoshima Island was also known as Kinki-zan (Mt. Kinki), which means mountain of golden turtle. Therefore kindei (a pigment that contains gold) was used to draw the turtles’ shells and the silver pigment is used to draw the flow of the river. It looks like some patterns are floating on the upper part of two sake bottles on a red small stand (sampou: a stand to put offerings), but in fact, they are the threads to knot the housho papers expressed with karazuri (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 |
10014 |
