Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido
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This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui, 東海道五十三対,popularly called Pairs Tōkaidō or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846.
It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyūbei, (Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô)) and Kojimaya Jûbei, Enshûya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) and Iseya Ichibei.
The special feature of this "Pairs Tōkaidō" is the pairing of a print for each station with a legend, a wonderful, dramatic, historic or supranatural story. These stories are told partly by the print theme, partly by accompanying text in a cartouche. Sometimes there is a poem. It is a very enjoyable tour!
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Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido - Cristina Berna
Hiroshige
Kunisada Kuniyoshi
53 Pairings of the
Tōkaidō
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Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen
2021
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Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi
53 Pairings of the Tōkaidō
(Pairs Tōkaidō 1845-1846)
Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen
Copyright ©2021, 2023 by Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
The pictures of the prints are in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This book is void of sale where disallowed.
This title is available as full color print book
ISBN: 978-1-956215-19-9 Paperback ISBN 978-1-956773-43-9 Hardcover
About the authors
Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She also creates designs and advice on fashion and styling.
Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.
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Cover picture: Front: Station no 45 Shonō (the horse Ikezuki detail) Rear: Station no 32 Futakawa (reading Shank’s Mare)
Inside: Station no 16 Yui (fisherwoman, detail)
Introduction
This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui, 東海道五十三対,popularly called Pairs Tōkaidō or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846.
It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyūbei, (Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô)) and Kojimaya Jûbei, Enshûya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) and Iseya Ichibei.
The special feature of this Pairs Tōkaidō
is the pairing of a print for each station with a legend, a wonderful, dramatic, historic or supranatural story. These stories are told partly by the print theme, partly by accompanying text in a cartouche. Sometimes there is a poem. It is a very enjoyable tour!
Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also called Andō Hiroshige (in Japanese: 安藤 広重;) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. He was born 1797 and died 12 October 1858.
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world".
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, which is the subject of this book, and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
The main subjects of his work are considered atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose focus was more on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).
The Edo period was a period with strong feudal control by the Tokugawa shogunate, with stability and economic growth, very closed to outside influence, although methods were imported and applied and a flowering cultural and artistic life.
The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai (ISBN 9781956215243) was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject. Hiroshige's approach is more poetic and ambient, much more detailed, than Hokusai's bolder, more formal and focused prints.
Futami Bay in Ise Province
27_-_Futami_Bay.jpgHiroshige: Print 27: Futami Bay in Ise Province, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 1858 ISBN 9781956215236
Where Hokusai gives you an immediate experience just from looking at his prints, with Hiroshige you have to look more carefully, devote more time, to decipher the details and the meaning.
Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.
For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
The Meiji Restoration followed in 1868 after Commodore Matthew C Perry had forced Japan to open its ports to foreign in 1853. It meant an end to the shogunate, the feudal ruling system, restored the powers to the emperor who centralized government and industrialization.
Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Brooklyn_Museum_-_Wind_Blown_Grass_Across_the_Moon_-_Utagawa_Hiroshige_%28Ando%29.jpg/220px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_Wind_Blown_Grass_Across_the_Moon_-_Utagawa_Hiroshige_%28Ando%29.jpgWind Blown Grass Across the Moon – by Hiroshige
Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on Western painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism.
See author´s book Van Gogh Landscapes – The Japanese Connection.
Western artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions. Vincent van Gogh even went so far as to paint copies of two of Hiroshige's prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
Hiroshige was born in 1797 in the Yayosu Quay section of the Yaesu area in Edo (modern Tokyo). He was of a samurai background, and is the great-grandson of Tanaka Tokuemon, who held a position of power under the Tsugaru clan in the northern province of Mutsu.
Returning Sails at Tsukuda
Returning Sails at Tsukuda, from Eight Views of Edo, Utagawa Toyohiro between 1802 and 1828, Brooklyn Museum online, image: Opencooper
Hiroshige studied under Toyohiro of the Utagawa school of artists. Hiroshige's grandfather, Mitsuemon, was an archery instructor who worked under the name Sairyūken.
Hiroshige's father, Gen'emon, was adopted into the family of Andō Jūemon, whom he succeeded as fire warden for the Yayosu Quay area.
Hiroshige went through several name changes as a youth: Jūemon, Tokubē, and Tetsuzō. He had three sisters, one of whom died when he was three. His mother died in early 1809, and his father followed later in the year, but not before handing his fire warden duties to his twelve-year-old son. He was charged with prevention of fires at Edo Castle, a duty that left him much leisure time.
Not long after his parents' deaths, perhaps at around fourteen, Hiroshige—then named Tokutarō— began painting. He sought the tutelage of Toyokuni of the Utagawa school, but Toyokuni had too many pupils to make room for him. A librarian introduced him instead to Toyohiro of the same school.
By 1812 Hiroshige was permitted to sign his works, which he did under the art name Hiroshige. He also studied the techniques of the well-established Kanō school, the nanga whose tradition began with the Chinese Southern School, and the realistic Shijō school, and likely the perspective techniques of Western art and ukiyo-e.
Hiroshige's apprentice work included book illustrations and single-sheet ukiyo-e prints of female beauties and kabuki actors in the Utagawa style, sometimes signing them Ichiyūsai or, from 1832, Ichiryūsai. In 1823, he resigned his post as fire warden, though he still acted as an alternate. He declined an offer to succeed Toyohiro upon the master's death in 1828.
It was not until 1829–1830 that Hiroshige began to produce the landscapes he has come to be
The Plum Garden in Kameido
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/De_pruimenboomgaard_te_Kameido-Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1956-743.jpeg/235px-De_pruimenboomgaard_te_Kameido-Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1956-743.jpegEdo, print 30: The Plum Garden in Kameido, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ISBN 9781956215212
known for, such as the Eight Views of Ōmi series. He also created an increasing number of bird and flower prints about this time. About 1831, his Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital appeared, and seem to bear the influence of Hokusai, whose popular landscape series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji had recently seen publication (ISBN 9781956215243).
An invitation to join an official procession to Kyoto in 1832 gave Hiroshige the opportunity to travel along the Tōkaidō route that linked the two capitals. He sketched the scenery along the way, and when he returned to Edo he produced the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, which contains some of his best-known prints.
Hiroshige built on the series' success by following it with others, such as the Illustrated Places of Naniwa (1834), Famous Places of Kyoto (1835), another Eight Views of Ōmi (1834). As he had never been west
Suidō Bridge and the Surugadai Quarter
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/100_views_edo_063.jpg/226px-100_views_edo_063.jpgEdo, print 63: Suidō Bridge and the Surugadai Quarter, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Iris Day) ISBN 9781956215212
of Kyoto, Hiroshige-based his illustrations of Naniwa (modern Osaka) and Ōmi Province on pictures found in books and paintings.
Hiroshige's first wife helped finance his trips to sketch travel locations, in one instance selling some of her clothing and ornamental combs. She died in October 1838, and Hiroshige remarried to Oyasu, sixteen years his junior, daughter of a farmer named Kaemon from Tōtōmi Province.
Around 1838 Hiroshige produced two series entitled Eight Views of the Edo Environs, each print accompanied by a humorous kyōka poem. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō saw print between about 1835 and 1842, a joint production with Keisai Eisen, of which Hiroshige's share was forty-six of the seventy prints. Hiroshige produced 118 sheets for the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo over the last decade of his life, beginning about 1848.
Hiroshige lived in the barracks until the age of 43. Gen'emon and his wife died in 1809,
Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital
https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/36_Views_Mount_Fuji/Images/Fuji_1858_03_Toto_Sukiya-gashi.jpgThirty-six Views, print 3: Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1858) ISBN 9781956216236
Whirlpools at Awa
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Utagawa_Hiroshige_%281857%29_Awa_Naruto_no_fuukei.jpg/500px-Utagawa_Hiroshige_%281857%29_Awa_Naruto_no_fuukei.jpgView of the Whirlpools at Awa triptych, 1857, part of the series "Snow, Moon and Flowers"