Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road
Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road

Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road

The title of this piece is a spoof of the fifty-three stations on the T?kaid?, which are the rest areas along the coastal route that ran from Edo to Kyoto. The work is spread over three prints (triptych format), and each of the 55 illustrations of cats is a play on words based on the names of the 53 stations plus Nihonbashi and Kyoto, the beginning and end points of the Tokaido route. Kuniyoshi was famous for being a cat-lover, and the cats in this piece are lovingly portrayed, each one capturing a different aspect of a cat’s charm in a humorous way with great accuracy and careful observation.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi was a great master of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and paintings in the late Edo period. Born in the Nihonbashi Honshirogane-cho area of Edo, Kuniyoshi's talents bloomed when he was still in his teens and he went to study under Utagawa Toyokuni I, a popular artist of the day. When Kuniyoshi was about 30 years old, he came into the limelight when he unveiled the series “One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori),” based on the Chinese tale “Water Margin.”

Price

Sale price¥60,000

Frame & Mat

A: Print only

The print is placed on the paper mat.

 

B: Framed print

The print is framed with the Adachi original ukiyo-e frame(500 × 925 mm).

 

 

C: Print + matboard

This is a set of a print and a matching matboard. The internal window of a matboard is cut for the image size. The external dimension is fixed for the Adachi original ukiyo-e frame(500 × 925 mm).

 
 

Frame & Mat

A: Print only

The print is placed on the paper mat.

 

B: Framed print

The print is framed with the Adachi original ukiyo-e frame(500 × 925 mm).

 

 

C: Print + matboard

This is a set of a print and a matching matboard. The internal window of a matboard is cut for the image size. The external dimension is fixed for the Adachi original ukiyo-e frame(500 × 925 mm).

 
 

Quantity:
Size/WeightPrint Size: 37.4 × 77.8 cm
MaterialPaper: Echizen Kizuki Hosho Washi made by Living National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano
FeatureType of print: Woodcut Print
NotesThis product includes:
・An explanation of the work in English and Japanese
・A leaflet to introduce the production process of ukiyo-e print
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