Utagawa Sadahide 1863 A obra retrata uma procissão em direção a Enoshima através do Subana, um caminho por um banco de areia criado em uma maré baixa. Na paisagem de Enoshima há o litoral da Baía de Sagami que vai desde a praia de Nango até Shimoda, com o Monte Hakone no sopé do Monte Fuji. 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 UtagawaIII e Hiroshige Utagawa II.

Utagawa Sadahide 1863 Description générale Cette série du Toukaidou, connue sous le nom de « Jōraku Toukaidou », a été publiée en 1863 (Bunkyu 3) lors de la procession de Tōkyō à Kyōto du quatorzième shogun Tokugawa Iemochi. Chacune des estampes met en scène la procession d’un Daimyo (seigneur féodal) accompagné de ses samouraïs. C’est une vaste collection de 162 œuvres illustrant non seulement les stations relais de la　route du Toukaidou, mais également les lieux célèbres se trouvant à proximité. Seize artistes populaires de l’époque, dont Toyokuni Utagawa III et Hiroshige Utagawa II, ont participé à la réalisation de cette série. The Toukaidou: Fujisawa, Yugyouji Temple In this picture, a party proceeding in front of the Yugyouji Temple is illustrated. Besides the title, the signs “The Direction for Edo” and “Kamakura Road” are indicated. In the wood beside the Yugyouji Temple, the signs ”Oguri Hall” and “The Grave of Ten Heroes of Oguri” based on the legendary tale of “Oguri-Hangan and Princess Terute” are illustrated. Below, at the right, beside the First Torii Gate to Enoshima, the indication of “Enoshima-michi (The Road to Enoshima Island)”is illustrated. As a master of bird’-eye view picture, Sadahide was conscious with the topographical contents of this land. This series was published with the event of the Fourteenth Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi’s procession from Tokyo to Kyoto (Shogun’s official visit to Emperor) that took place in 1863 (Bunkyu 3) and it is known as “Gojouraku Toukaidou (Samurai’s procession along the Toukaidou Highway)”. Iemochi’s visit was an unusual event since last time Tokugawa Shogun visited Emperor was 229 years ago when the Third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu visited Emperor. Therefore this event got a huge attention from the people of Edo. This series was very popular that 162 works were produced within this series. Since 16 artists from Utagawa School were involved for the production, it is considered that the publisher wanted to produce many works within a short period of time.

Artist: Totoya Hokkei Production date: 1830-1844 (early Tempou era) No publisher’s seal A man is looking at a view through his telescope from Enoshima Island. The Edo period record indicates that viewing scenery through telescope was a very popular custom during Edo period. As a typical surimono work, the lines of wave crash, surface texture of rocks and the kimono pattern of a man on the right are luxuriously decorated with gindei (a pigment that contains silver). “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.