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The 53 Stations of the Tokaido by Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 12 January 1865) is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction. But first of all it is a fashion magazine about beautiful, young and stylish Japanese women in 1838. These young beauties were one of the subjects Kunisada excelled in. Kunisada show beautiful girls from all walks of life, explorers and adventurers, musicians, theater stars, imperial concubines, country girls, business women. They all have beauty and great fashion taste as the common denominator. His landscapes were a means of circumventing censorship especially of theater prints and pin-up prints of pretty ladies, bijin-ga. The work is probably one of the most romantic of all the Tokaido series.
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About the authors
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: Front: no 24 ShimadaRear: no 19 Ejiri
Inside: No 15 Yoshiwara
Contents
Introduction
Utagawa Kunisada
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
The Kunisada Tōkaidō Details
No 1: Start: Nihonbashi
No 2: 1
st
station: Shinagawa-juku
No 3: 2
nd
station: Kawasaki-juku
No 4: 3
rd
station: Kanagawa-juku
No 5: 4
th
station: Hodogaya-juku
No 6: 5
th
station: Totsuka-juku
No 7: 6
th
station: Fujisawa-shuku
No 8: 7
th
station: Hiratsuka-juku
No 9: 8
th
station: Ōiso-juku
No 10: 9
th
station: Odawara-juku
No 11: 10
th
station: Hakone-juku
No 12: 11
th
station: Mishima-shuku
No 13: 12
th
station: Numazu-juku
No 14: 13
th
station: Hara-juku
No 15: 14
th
station: Yoshiwara-juku
No 16: 15
th
station: Kanbara-juku
No 17: 16
th
station: Yui-shuku
No 18: 17
th
station: Okitsu-juku
No 19: 18
th
station: Ejiri-juku
No 20: 19
th
station: Fuchū-shuku
No 21: 20
th
station Mariko-juku
No 22: 21
st
station Okabe-juku
No 23: 22
nd
station: Fujieda-juk
No 24: 23
rd
station Shimada-juku
No 25: 24
th
station Kanaya-juku
No 26: 25
th
station: Nissaka-shuku
No 27: 26
th
station: Kakegawa-juku
No 28: 27
th
station: Fukuroi-juku
No 29: 28
th
station: Mitsuke-juku
No 30: 29
th
station: Hamamatsu-juku
No 31: 30
th
station: Maisaka-juku
No 32: 31
st
station: Arai-juku
No 33: 32
nd
station: Shirasuka-juku
No 34: 33
rd
station: Futagawa-juku
No 35: 34
th
station Yoshida-juku
No 36: 35
th
station: Goyu-shuku
No 37: 36
th
station: Akasaka-juku
No 38: 37
th
station: Fujikawa-shuku
No 39: 38
th
station: Okazaki-shuku
No 40: 39
th
station: Chiryū-juku
No 41: 40
th
station: Narumi-juku
No 42: 41
st
station: Miya-juku
No 43: 42
nd
station: Kuwana-juku
No 44: 43
rd
station: Yokkaichi-juku
No 45: 44
th
station: Ishiyakushi-juku
No 46: 45
th
station: Shōno-juku
No 47: 46
th
station: Kameyama-juku
No 48: 47
th
station: Seki-juku
No 49: 48
th
station: Sakashita-juku
No 50: 49
th
station: Tsuchiyama-juku
No 51: 50
th
station: Minakuchi-juku
No 52: 51
st
station: Ishibe-juku
No 53: 52
nd
station: Kusatsu-juku
No 54: 53
rd
station: Ōtsu-juku
No 55: terminus: Sanjō Ōhashi (Kyoto)
No 56: terminus: Sanjō Ōhashi (Kyoto)
References
Introduction
The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 12 January 1865) is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction.
But first of all it is a fashion magazine about beautiful, young and stylish Japanese women in 1838. These young beauties were one of the subjects Kunisada excelled in.
Kunisada show beautiful girls from all walks of life, explorers and adventurers, musicians, theater stars, imperial concubines, country girls, business women. They all have beauty and great fashion taste as the common denominator. His landscapes were a means of circumventing censorship especially of theater prints and pin-up prints of pretty ladies, bijin-ga.
The work is probably one of the most romantic of all the Tōkaidō series.
Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation in Japan far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. However, he is lesser known in the West.
At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".
Portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, at the age of 80 years, dated January 1865. This memorial portrait was designed by his principal student, Kunisada II, and is one of the few known images of Kunisada. image: BetacommandBot
This is a typical arrogance in the art critic’s world that will be found even today, for example the Guardian’s critique of the exhibition of Joaquin Sorolla in Britain in 2019. Some of these art critics simply don’t understand that much and try to excel in radical left wing platitudes instead. They acquire expensive degrees from posh universities and try to carve out a name for themselves by being rude.
A piece of advice to the reader: You don’t have to like every piece of work Kunisada or any artist for that matter has produced. You are allowed to have your own taste. The Japanese print artists were very commercial, in the sense they designed prints aimed at a large audience. They created art in order to sell as much as possible, in cooperation with their different publishers. This was a business aimed at a large often common audience, and not at the samurai elite, which had previously been the main audience for art work. They were already in the modern poster gallery business. The Japanese prints were for the Japanese audience. If some of them are too local for your taste, there is nothing wrong with that. You, the reader, is entitled to develop your own taste as you see fit.
Kunisada: Snow Scene, Brooklyn Museum, image: BrooklynMuseumBot
