Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 121370
Hiratsuka
- 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
- 1422 × 1000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Artelino
- Published by / 公開者
- 黒川トウマ
- 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: #8 Hiratsuka 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 they have hired palanquin bearers to take them across the Banjugawa. Yaji is impressing the front bear…
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