Hiroshige Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka) E-Book

Cristina Berna

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 85

Beschreibung

This book shows the 10 Famous Views Of Naniwa (Osaka) by Hiroshige published in 1834. They are unusual in that they show markets with merchants negotiating. The 8 Views is a Chinese artistic and literary theme developed already in the 10th century and then transposed into Japanese culture, where it developed its own independent expression. Print artist Utagawa Hiroshige as many other Japanese artists took up the issue of 8 Views of Omi and again as other Japanese artists he expanded the theme into 8 Views of Kanazawa, 8 Views of Edo Environs and other locations. To give some background there are many other prints included especially about rice but also fishing and transportation, and cultural activities afforded by the wealth accumulated by the merchants. It is possible to travel to see the same sites today.

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Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She writes to entertain a diverse audience.

Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.

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Cover picture: View of Dôtonbori (Dôtonbori no zu), from the series Famous Views of Naniwa (Osaka), 1834

Inside: Rice Market at Dōjima (Dōjima kome akinai) from the series Famous Places in Ninawa (Osaka) 1834. Detail.

Contents

Introduction

Utagawa Hiroshige

Eight Views

Famous Places of Naniwa (Osaka)

List of the prints

Osaka

Rice Market at Dōjima

(Dōjima kome akinai)

Night Market at Junkei-machi

(Junkei-machi yomise no zu)

Boats Docking at Hachikenya

(Hachikenya chakusen no zu)

Fish Market at Zakoba

(Zakoba uoichi no zu)

Dengaku Dancing at the Onda Ritual of the Sumiyoshi

Cherry-blossom Viewing on the Hill of the Tenjin Shrine in Yasui

The Naniwaya Pine in Adachi-chō

(Adachi-chō Naniwaya no matsu)

Kuken-chō in the Shinmachi Pleasure Quarter (

Shinmachi Kuken-chō)

The Tōka-Ebisu Festival at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine

View of Dôtonbori (

Dôtonbori no zu

)

Other prints

Tsushima Tenno Festival

Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon

Returning Sails at Tsukuda

Plum Estate, Kameido

View of the Whirlpools at Awa

Suō Iwakuni

Miyakawanowatasi

Teppōzu Akashi-bash

Hakone:

View of the Lake

Carp

Battle of Kawanakajima

Sokokura

All eight views in one

Evening Glow at Seta

Spring Moon at Osaka Castle

The Four Social Classes: Merchants (shō)

The Kazusa Province Sea Route

Official Storehouses at Nanbamura

19

th

station: Fuchū-shuku on the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

Dôjima Rice Market

Moonlight on the Yodo River

Yorol Ferry

The Karasu River at Kuragano Station

No 41 Hoki

Rice fields in Kinoshitagawa in Edo

Station No 66 –

Musa

10

th

station: Hakone-juku from the Kyōka-edition

Station no 5 – Ageo

Making Top-quality White Sake

In the Cool of the Evening in the Vicinity of Lord Nabeshima's Warehouse

Nakahara in Sagami Province

Actors as merchants and customers

Lumber Market at the Nagahori Canal

Prosperous Merchants Worship the God of Wealth

Dock at Eitai-hama

View to the East from Kappa Island

Pink snapper and fish market

No 30 Wakasa

Zakoba Fish Market

Fish Market at Nihonbashi Bridge

Fish Market at Odawara-chô, Nihonbashi, Edo

Cherry Blossoms in the Evening

Cherry Blossoms at Yoshiwara

Cherry-blossom Viewing at Goten-yama

Pines and Waves at Ryûtô

Japanese White Pine

Pine Tree

The Suzuka River and Foothills at Tsuchiyama

Moonlit Pine and Pleasure Boat

Begonia

Private performance of Kabuki

Puppet and puppeteer

Kabuki - Fight the Rain

Dancing fox

Actor Seki Sanjûrô as a Fiserhwoman

Imamiya Ebisu Shrine

Horikawa-ebisu-jinja

Twilight in Imamiya Street

Bitsu, God of Good Fortune

Full Moon at the Harbor

Rice Planting

Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige

References

Introduction

This book shows the 10 Famous Views Of Naniwa (Osaka) by Hiroshige published in 1834. They are unusual in that they show markets with merchants negotiating. It comes from 8 Views.

The 8 Views is a Chinese artistic and literary theme developed already in the 10th century and then transposed into Japanese culture, where it developed its own independent expression.

Print artist Utagawa Hiroshige as many other Japanese artists took up the issue of 8 Views of Ōmi and again as other Japanese artists he expanded the theme into 8 Views of Kanazawa, 8 Views of Edo Environs and other locations.

To give some background there are many other prints included in this book especially about rice but also fishing and transportation, and cultural activities afforded by the wealth accumulated by the merchants. It is possible to travel to see the same sites today.

Cristina and Eric

Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (in 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, and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo with Eisen 1835 - 1842.

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 in a flowering cultural and artistic life.

The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai (ISBN 978-1-956215-24-3) was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject. Hiroshige's approach is more ambient, much more detailed than Hokusai's bolder, more poetic, more formal and focused prints.

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.

Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces, print 9: Owari Province, Tsushima Tenno Festival (evening)

The Meiji Restoration followed in 1868 after Commodore Matthew C Perry had forced Japan to open its ports to foreign ships in 1853. It meant an end to the shogunate, the feudal ruling system, restored the powers to the emperor who centralized government and industrialization.

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.

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 see artists book Van Gogh Landscapes – The Japanese Connection. Hiroshige was born in 1797 in the Yayosu Quay section of the Yaesu area in Edo (modern Tokyo).

Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon – by Hiroshige

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. Hiroshige studied under Toyohiro of the Utagawa school of artists. Hiroshige's grandfather, Mitsuemon, was an archery instructor who worked under the name Sairyūken.

Returning Sails at Tsukuda, from Eight Views of Edo, Utagawa Toyohiro between 1802 and 1828, Brooklyn Museum online, image: Opencooper

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 uki-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.

Print no 30: Plum Estate, Kameido, in 100 Famous Views of Edo, which was copied by Van Gogh, see ISBN 9781956215212.