資料名 |
Ishiyakushi: Yoshitaka, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway” |
作者 |
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
解説 |
This portrait is thought to be Sawamura Chōjūrō V as Ashikaga Sanshichirō Yoshitaka in his 1849 performance of Date Zensei Sakura no Iromaku. This play is part of the umakiri genre of kabuki plays that derived from the fifth act of Keisei Harunotori titled “Senshū Sakai Yamatobashi-no-ba.” First performed in 1794, the plot focuses on Oda Sanshichi Nobutaka, who ambushes an umakata (a transporter for hire that carried people or goods on horseback) and steals the 3,000 ryō that the umakata had been transporting. The background of this print depicts the entrance to Ishiyakushi post station and uses the landscape from Ishiyakushi from Utagawa Hiroshige’s Tsutatya edition of the “Tōkaidō” series. The frame of the title is decorated with a bridge and three senryōbako (a box of 1,000 ryō). This often appears as iconography to represent the umakiri genre. |
資料番号 |
60539 |
