Catalog record · 目録番号 121364
Shinagawa
Catalog note / 解説
Wednesday, 26 January 2005 Shanks' Mare Tokaido Series: #2 Shinagawa 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. Most of the landscape designs bear more than a passing acknowledgment to the designs of Hiroshige for his Great Tokaido series. Here they have soon arrived in Shinagawa 2ri from the Nihonbashi. This stage is the first of the 53 posting stations alo…
Image record / 画像情報
Artelino · 1890. · artelino
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