Catalog record · 目録番号 121366
Kanagawa - Tokaido Meisho Hizakurige
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…
Image record / 画像情報
Artelino · 1890. · artelino
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