Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed.

ISBN-13: 9783836594875 / Angielski

Rhiannon Paget

Opis

The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaidō journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838.Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō, we find the artists’ distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it’s the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki.Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN volume is sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions and revives the series in our compact anniversary edition.

Recenzje

"Atemberaubende Landschaften, regionale Leckerbissen, Thermalquellen und andere, frivolere Sinnenfreuden." The New York Times

O autorze

Rhiannon Paget studierte an der Universität der Künste in Tokio und promovierte über japanische Kunstgeschichte an der University of Sydney. Sie ist Kuratorin für asiatische Kunst am John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, und hat Studien zu japanischen Holzschnitten, Textilien, Brettspielen und Nihonga veröffentlicht. Andreas Marks studierte ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Bonn und wurde an der Universität Leiden mit einer Dissertation in Japanologie zu Schauspielerdrucken des 19. Jahrhunderts promoviert. Von 2008 bis 2013 war Marks Direktor und Chefkurator des Clark Center for Japanese Art im kalifornischen Hanford. Seit 2013 ist er Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Leiter der Abteilung für japanische und koreanische Kunst sowie Direktor des Clark Center for Japanese Art am Minneapolis Institute of Art.