Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 69 Stations of Kiso Kaido'Annaka, Seigen'
Item No
#108504300
Item
Ukiyo-e(Landscape)
Price
$340.00
Shipping
$18.6
Weight
0.01kg
size
width
24.5cm 9 3/4"
height
37.4cm 14 3/4"
'69 Stations of Kiso Kaido' is a series of ukiyo-e that has a landscape of Kiso Kaido in upper left part of each work. The main picture shows subjects associated with name of the station. This print depicts a story of Seigen Hosi.
Seigen Hoshi is a character of a Joruri/Kabuki story of a Buddhist monk who fell in love at first sight with Sakura Hime. He haunts Hime even after being killed for his apostasy. This is an interesting Meisho-e (landscape) seemingly-related a story.
A hole and wrinkles on the corners Slightly soiled and stained
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.
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