Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The print for Mitsuke Station shows a boat crossing the Tenryu River. The Hoeido edition of Hiroshige's series of Toukaidou prints presents a placid scene at the same spot, with boats beached on a sandbar in the river. In contrast, this print depicts frightened travelers in a rocking boat. In correspondence with the place name, which means “dancing slope,” the Maisaka Station print shows people dancing. In reality, during the Grand Drum Festival held at the Maisaka Kisa Shrine (in the city of Hamamatsu), people walk through the street doing a “hand dance.” This might be the subject of this print. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Miya was a station town that grew out of an older town which developed in front of the gate of Atsuta Shrine. As a “gate-front” town, it attracted throngs of shrine worshippers. At the same time, it thrived as the ferry crossing for Kuwana Station. It was said to be the most prosperous town along the whole Toukaidou. In this print, two men are intently viewing a calligraphy scroll that has been hung upside down, and a woman is having a good laugh over it. The Yokkaichi station was known for its buns with bean-paste filling. The child is making a pilgrimage with a ladle under his belt, and seems to be asking for another bun from atop his horse. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The Shirasuka Station print portrays Shiomizaka, a spot renowned for its an excellent view of the coast. Four pilgrims are walking in a line, wearing sedge caps, dressed in white robes, and hanging white pilgrim's sacks from their necks. The object which the lad at the rear is holding in his right hand may be a specimen of the famed peastone (pisolith). Yoshida Station was known for having many women eager to serve guests food and drink. A widely known ditty contained a verse about the “sleeves of a fawn beckoning from the second floor” when passing through Yoshida. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) The Shirasuka Station print portrays Shiomizaka, a spot renowned for its an excellent view of the coast. Four pilgrims are walking in a line, wearing sedge caps, dressed in white robes, and hanging white pilgrim's sacks from their necks. The object which the lad at the rear is holding in his right hand may be a specimen of the famed peastone (pisolith). Yoshida Station was known for having many women eager to serve guests food and drink. A widely known ditty contained a verse about the “sleeves of a fawn beckoning from the second floor” when passing through Yoshida. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Utagawa Yoshikazu The production date: 1853 (Kaei 6) Like those at Goyu and Yoshida stations, the inns at Akasaka Station employed many serving women. Akasaka was such a lively town that some said there would be no point in traveling to and from Edo without Goyu, Akasaka, and Yoshida. In the print for Okazaki Station, Okazaki Castle, where Tokugawa Ieyasu was born, lies in the background, and Yahagi Bridge, which spanned the Yahagi River, in the foreground. The boy in the center is likened to Watonai, the protagonist of Kokusenya Kassen, a puppet-theater play. That story has a scene in which Watonai vanquishes a tiger with an amulet from the Ise Grand Shrine. In this print, however, the boy is raising a wooden amulet against a mere cat. Many Utagawa school ukiyo-e artists published the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”. In this distinctive series, Yoshikazu introduced the legends and episodes that related to the post stations of the Toukaidou Highway humorously. Generally, he produced humorous pictures with horizontal small ko-ban size format. Utagawa Yoshikazu Date of birth and death unknown Yoshikazu was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and active from the Kaei era till Meiji 3 (1848~1870). He also used the artist names such as Shunsai and Ichikawa. He produced many worrier pictures, kacho-ga (pictures of birds and flowers), and Yokohama-e (ukiyo-e depicting foreigner’s life styles or the scenes of Yokohama). He also produced illustrations of kusa-zoshi (books with illustrations ).

Large format horizontal one vertical 23.6 horizontal 33.1 Production time: unknown. No sign and seal The mud painting (Doroe), which was drawn with paint mixed with chalk (chalk) to poor pigment (pigment) called Doroenogu, as the first the time treasure calendar, of the craftsman painter until the first half of the 19th century around the a perspective that has been made by hand is a strong picture of the Western-style representation of the principal. Because there are many things that have been produced as glasses picture (Meganee), it may be referred to as the handwriting glasses picture other than the work that has been produced in copperplate and woodcut and mud picture. This picture has also been drawn to the left and right reverse shadow, you can see that those that have been produced for peep glasses. If you reverse the left and right in reverse, you can see that is a work of composition similar to the "Tokaido containing 'kyoka" primary Hiroshige. Please see the reverse image in the "You look at another of the image."