Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 121366

Kanagawa - Tokaido Meisho Hizakurige

Artist / 作者
Fujikawa Tamenobu藤川為信
Date / 年代
1890
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Taisho / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録
1412 × 1000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Artelino
Published by / 公開者
森川ミドリ
Rights / 権利
All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記
Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

Wednesday, 26 January 2005 Shanks' Mare Tokaido Series: #4 Kanagawa Artist: Tamenobu Fujikawa Format: Oban yoko-e: 9.5" x 14" approx Subject: The two heroes of 'Shanks' Mare Tokaido' (Tokaido Hizakurige) by Jippensha Ikku, here depicted by Tamenobu, Yajirobe and Kitahachi. The author Ikku was a popular comic writer of the Tokugawa period (19th century) and this was the first 'translation' of the two scoundrels' adventures on the Tokaido highway into Ukiyo-e. Most of the landscape designs bear more than a passing acknowledgment to the designs of Hiroshige for his Great Tokaido series. Here our heroes are depicted on their exit from Kanagawa on the 1ri 9cho journey to Hodogaya accompanied by…

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