This station is called Yoshida. A bridge is over the Toyo River: The print is a variation. The two artists Hiroshige and Toyokuni are in collaboration for this print. Upper part consists of a Tokaido view by Hiroshige, and the lower part, large figures are illustrative of legends by Kunisada, over the signature of Toyokuni. Dorothy H. Riddle Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
Title:"Bandit" Signed. Engraver's seal only. Of the Utagawa School, Kunisada was the best known, on account of his enormous productivity. This is how a mountain robber looked and acted in feudalistic times.
Title: "A Happy Event". Explanation: The woman is presenting white rice cakes on a tray with chopsticks. Upper section: Picture of a bend on an island.
Title:" A Young Samuri- The Flower of Manhood" Signed. Engraver's seal: Wantanabe. Acted by Kikuhachiro Onoye. Close fan in right hand. Head gear in left hand. He is wearing a "Kamishimo" consisting of a waist-coat like affair.
Title:"An Actor as a Warrior" Signed. Publisher's Seal: Tsuta-ya. Kunisada is chief pupil of Toyokuni. His production fo actor prints are considered even greater than his master. There is no particular actor's name printed on this sheet. One of the warriors with a "hachimaki" (band) around his head. Sword in right hand. In fighting, the right shoulder outer garment is stripped, so the difference in color can be noted.
Title:" An Entertainer" Signed. Publisher's Seal: only "Kiwame" seal. Sencho is a pupil of Yeisen; he designed studies of "oirans" closely after the style of his master. This is one of is figure studies. Quite a disorderly dressed woman.
Title:"At Kanaya Station" (Plate #25) from "53 Stations on the Tokaido" Signed by Hokusai I-itsu (hitsu) 1760-1849 Publisher's Seal: Takenouchi. Of the numerous series of landscape scenes designed by Hiroshige, none are better known, or have brought him wider fame, than his celebrated early set of view (all oblon) on the two captials-- Yedo (now Tokyo) and Kyoto (old capital). A distance of 323 miles. This is Plate #25. At Kanaya. Beyond the wide sandy flats of the river, across which a "Daimyos" cortege is being carried, rises a jumble of fooothills, in a crevice of which nestles a village. In the background, a high range of curioulsy hump-shaped mountains, printed in graded black from color blocks only.
Title:"At Yokaichi" from the series:"53 Stations of the Takaido". This is Plate No. 44 at Yokkaichi- San Cho kawa. These are a set of 55 (including prints of starting off point at Yedo and arriving at Kyoto). The series was completed in Jan. 1834. A high wind is blowing from right across the marsh. To left, a peasant, cloaked, on a trestle bridge; another races along the causeway to catch his hat which has blown off. In center, a willow tree bending to the wind; left, roofs of cottages, and masts of boats. The bow of a punt in the foreground.
Title:" Beauty of the Times". Signed by: Toyokuni (Utagawa) 1769--1825. Date: 12th month. Woman kneeling before a table spread with food ready to be served. The artist is one of the best known artists of "Ukiyoye." He was the son of a wood carver.