資料名 |
Arai: Kojorō, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway” |
解説 |
This print depicts Kojorō, a courtesan at Okuda-ya in Hakata who appears in Hakata Kojorō Namimakura. The actor playing Kojorō is Iwai Kumesaburō III. Kojorō is the lover of Komachiya Sōshichi (No. 17), who had been thrown into the sea after witnessing a smuggling operation on a pirate ship he unwittingly took passage on. The background depicts Imagire-no-watashi ferry boats heading to Arai post station on the opposite (west) bank of the river. The ferries are said to traverse one ri (about 4 km). Although the position of the boats have been altered (possibly to center Kojorō within the print’s composition), the depiction of three boats heading west on the left side of the screen with boats illustrated in the distance on the right side, perhaps alludes to the Arai landscape from Utagawa Hiroshige’s Tsutaya edition of the “Tōkaidō” series. |
資料番号 |
60536 |
