- Museum number
- 2019,3021.1.1
- Title
- Object: Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi manga emaki 東海道五十三次漫画絵巻 (Manga Handscrolls of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway)
- Description
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Painting, handscroll, one of a pair. Manga images of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido highway, plus Tokyo and Kyoto, by various artists. 27 paintings in scroll 1, and 28 paintings in scroll 2. Ink and colour on paper, signed and sealed. With paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 1921
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.40 centimetres
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Width: 32.80 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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[Scroll 1:]
1. Nihonbashi, by Okamoto Ippei (1886-1948), Asahi shimbun
日本橋 岡本一平(朝日新聞)
2. Shinagawa, by Arita Shigeru (d. 1941), Jiji shinpō
品川 在田稠(時事新報)
3. Kawasaki, by Shimokawa Hekoten (1892-1973), Chūō shinbun
川崎 下川凹天(中央新聞)
4. Kanagawa, by Okamoto Ippei
神 奈 川 岡本一平
5. Hodogaya, by Shirota Shūichi (1880-1958), Miyako shinbun
保土ケ谷 代田収一(都新聞)
6. Totsuka, by Shimizu Taigakubō (1883-1970), Yorozu chōhō
戸塚 清水對岳坊(萬朝報)
7. Fujisawa, by Arita Shigeru
藤沢 在田稠
8. Hiratsuka, by Nakanishi Rikkei (dates unknown), Hōchi shinbun
平塚 中西立頃(報知新聞)
9. Ōiso, by Ikeda Eiji (1889-1950)
大磯 池田永治
10. Odawara, by Arita Shigeru
小田原 在田稠
11. Hakone, by Kondō Kōichiro (1884-1962), Yomiuri shinbun
箱根 近藤浩一路(読売新聞)
12. Mishima, by Okamoto Ippei
三島 岡本一平
13. Numazu, by Shimizu Taigakubō
沼津 清水對岳坊
14. Hara, by Hattori Ryōei (1887-1955), Asahi shimbun
原 服部亮英(朝日新聞)
15. Yoshiwara, by Kondō Kōichiro
吉原 近藤浩一路
16. Kanbara, by Ikebe Hitoshi (1886-1969), Kokumin shinbun
蒲原 池辺釣(国民新聞)
17. Yui, by Kondō Kōichiro
由比 近藤浩一路
18. Okitsu, by Kōuchi Jun’ichi (1886-1970), Mainichi shinbun
興津 幸内純一(毎日新聞)
19. Eijiri, by Shimizu Taigakubō
江尻 清水對岳坊
20. Shizuoka, by Okamoto Ippei
静岡 岡本一平
21. Maruko, by Shimizu Taigakubō
丸子 清水對岳坊
22. Okabe, by Morishima Naozō (dates unknown), Jiji shinpō
岡部 森島直三(時事新報)
23. Fujieda, by Ogawa Jihei (1887-1925), Jiji shinpō
藤枝 小川治平(時事新報)
24. Shimada, by Ikebe Hitoshi
島田 池辺釣
25. Kanaya, by Ogawa Jihei
金谷 小川治平
26. Nissaka, by Hosokibara Seiki (1885-1958), Tōkyō nichinichi shinbun
日坂 細木原青起(東京日々新聞)
27. Kakegawa, by Hosokibara Seiki
掛川 細木原青起
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Accounts of the number of sets originally painted vary:
‘The scroll set was done in some 250 to 300 copies’ (Boston Book Company)
https://www.rarebook.com/pages/books/88987/maekawa-sempan-okamoto-ippei-hiratsuka-unichi/tokaido-gojusan-sugi-manga-emaki
‘About 150 sets’ (Ōkawa Museum of Art, Kiryū)
http://www.kiryu.co.jp/ohkawamuseum/kikakuten/kyoukamanga/setumei.htm
The theme of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō highway evolved in the early 19thC, particularly with the famous set of colour woodblock prints of the early 1830s by Utagawa Hiroshige (BM has the whole set). This light-hearted work shows how scenes along the highway had evolved one hundred years later, embracing the motor car and rail travel among other emblems of modernity.
For another group project to create manga paintings, see (Manga paintings) Illustrations of Sixty Years of History Since the Founding of the Nation (2015,3028.1-48).
See Paul Berry, Unexplored Avenues of Japanese Painting: The Hakutakuan Collection (Seattle, 2001), no. 18 for a description of a variant set.
(T. Clark, 8/2019)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2019,3021.1.1
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.1385A