Utagawa Sadahide
1863
Explicação geral
A série Toukaidou, conhecida como Gojouraku Toukaidou, foi publicada em 1863 (Bunkyu 3) com a visita do 14° xogum (comandante militar) Iemochi Tokugawa a Kyoto. Cada obra desta série retrata guerreiros e procissões de senhores feudais. Ela aborda não somente as pousadas de Toukaidou, como também locais famosos ao longo do seu percurso, contando com a enorme quantidade de 162 pinturas. As pinturas foram feitas por 16 artistas de sucesso na época, incluindo Toyokuni Utagawa III e Hiroshige Utagawa II.
This is one of the series of “Jouraku Toukaidou (Samurai’s procession along the Toukaidou Highway)”. Inamura-ga-saki Cliff, Koshigoe, Enoshima Island, Hakone Mountain Range, Futago-dake Mountain, Shimoda and finally Mt. Fuji are illustrated with the names of the places, and they are illustrated from the angle of the First Torii Gate of Tsuru-ga-oka Hachimangu Shrine located at Yui-ga-hama. This can be possible by Sadahide, who was good at the bird’s eye view depiction of famous places. In the middle, trees separate the picture and creates a fresh composition. The man standing by the beach is considers as the Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, although as the work no.40 he never visited this place, and Minamoto no Yoritomo, who had a connection to this place, became the image source of this picture.