Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tokaido 53 stations - famous 5 stations from Okitsu to Fuchu
Item No
#108003540
Item
Ukiyo-e(Landscape)
Artist
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Price
$2400.00
Weight
0.01kg
size
width
37.5cm 14 3/4"
depth
25cm 9 3/4"
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi(1797-1862) is one of the most prominent ukiyoe artists in the Edo era. He studies under Utagawa Toyokuni when he was 15 years old. He used several artist's name such as Sauhousya, Ichiyusai and Chouourou.
Although Kuniyoshi created all genre of ukiyoe, many of his impressive works are not portraits of beauties or actors. He becase famous after creating several musha-e or prints of warriors such as the image of Taitano Tomonari as a ghost and Tsuzoku Suiko-den.
He is called an “artist of unique imagination” since he introduced new ideas one after another out of his abundant imagination into wide ranged field of his artworks.
After the Tempo era, he began to depict western style landscape pictures and this artwork also shows his precise skills to depict geographical features and modern realism sense of composition.
Tokaido 53 stations are located along the main road between Edo where was (still is) the political center and Kyoto where the Emperor lived. This artwork depicts Okitsu/Fuchu area (current Shizuoka).
Different from the famous sentimental landscape images created by Utadawa Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi's works looks more like picture maps indicating those stations with tags. The travellers depicted in the right below of the print draw viewers' attention to the landscape.
Good Color aned Condition
Slight staing, wrincles and burn
Yoko Oban (horizontal large size print)
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