Title : Hiratsuka

Artist : Fujikawa Tamenobu

Date : 1918

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Source : Japanese Art Open Database
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Description : 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 bearer with his 'expert' knowledge of the locality, gleaned from an open guide book on his lap. Date: October 1918 Condition: As issued, full size and retaining original Japanese album backing paper. Series number and title stamped by hand in top margin. Paper very slightly toned. Minor marks and flaws. Generally very good state of preservation. Colour: Fine Impression: Fine with gauffrage

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