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2014.10.30

Meisho & Nigao:
Ukiyo-e Matchup of Famous Sites and Portraits
2014 November 18 (Tue.) – 2015 February 1 (Sun.)
The museum will be closed for the new year holiday from Dec. 28 (Sun.) to Jan.5 (Mon.)Part 1: 2014 November 18 (Tue.) – 2014 December 21 (Sun.)Part 2: 2014 December 23 (Tue./Holiday) – 2015 February 1 (Sun.)
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2014.10.30

Meisho & Nigao: Ukiyo-e Matchup of Famous Sites and Portraits
2014 November 18 (Tue.) – 2015 February 1 (Sun.)Part 1 / 2014 November 18 (Tue.) – 2014 December 21 (Sun.)Part 2 / 2014 December 23 (Tue./Holiday) – 2015 February 1 (Sun.)
The museum will be closed for the new year holiday from Dec. 28 (Sun.) to Jan.5 (Mon.)

Organizer: Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Designated Manager: NPO Hexaproject
Cooperation: The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing
Shizuoka Prefecture Print Association
Shizuoka City Print Association

Drawing the scenery of Tōkaidō and Edo, Utagawa Hiroshige was known as an artist of famous places, while
Utagawa Toyokuni III excelled at portraits of kabuki actors and beautiful women.
This exhibition presents the Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes, plus the Famous Restaurants of the Eastern
Capital, two series in which these late Edo Period legends matched up their respective artistic expertise onto one
screen. Also on display are woodblock prints of famous places in Shizuoka City, including the six stations and twopasses of the Tokaido by Shizuoka Prefecture printmakers, as well as figurative woodblock prints by famous
illustrators who have been active since the 1970’s and are known for their portraits of celebrities.
Please enjoy this matchup of famous site and portrait works by Edo period and present-day popular artists.
■Artwork*Changes may be made to the exhibit and its displayed works.

Ukiyo-ePart 1

Utagawa Hiroshige,

Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes [56 works; inc. catalog]

Utagawa Toyokuni III
Part 2

Utagawa Hiroshige,

Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital [50 works]

Utagawa Toyokuni III
Utagawa Toyokuni III

Memorial Portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige [1 work]

Modern Woodblock Print
Part 1

Part 2

Kanetaka Urata

Miho Pine Trees and Mt. Fuji etc. [10 works]

Shōji Yamafuji

Six Masters of Comic Story Teller series [6 works]

Kōichi Maeda

Road to the Mountain Pass etc. [5 works]

Morikazu Maeda

Stone between the Waves etc. [5 works]

Makoto Wada

Six constellations series [6 works]

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2014.10.30■Exhibition Highlights■Ukiyo-e Matchup of Famous Sites and Portraits
Hiroshige drew famous places of Tōkaidō and Edo in a lyrical style forpeople who yearned to travel. Toyokuni Ⅲ received much acclaim for his
glamorously drawn portraits of Kabuki actors who were the idols of Edo.
One can enjoy the matchup of their varied styles in these collaboration
works of Ukiyo-e.

Part 1□
Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ□
Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes “Ejiri”■Modern Famous Sites and Portraits
From realistic to abstract, a rich variety ofscenery woodblock prints featuring famousplaces in Shizuoka City are on display,including the six stations and two passes of
the Tōkaidō. Also on display are figurative
woodblock prints of the stars of yesteryear,
drawn in a deformed caricature style. Find
delight in this matchup of “Meisho (famoussite)” and “Nigao (Portrait)” works by amyriad of artists.

Part 1/Kanetaka Urata

Part 2/Makoto Wada

Mt. Fuji from Satta Pass

River of No Return Marilyn Monroe

Collection of the artist

Collection of The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing■Decipher the keywords hidden in the Ukiyo-e
The collaboration of popular artists Hiroshige and Toyokuni Ⅲ is not the
only feature these exhibited works. In the background of Edo restaurants
drawn by Hiroshige, Toyokuni Ⅲ drew in witty-style scenes and charactersfrom kabuki programs which have a connection to the restaurant.
In the Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital series work “TheHashimoto Restaurant, Ushiwakamaru”, the story of the encounter with
Benkei and his future master Ushiwaka-maru (Yoshitsune) is shown.
Part 2
Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital“The Hashimoto Restaurant, Ushiwakamaru”

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2014.10.30■Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ
Part 1
Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes
Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes is a full-size series printed by Maruya Kyūshirō between 1854 and 1857.
Utagawa Hiroshige, popular for his landscapes of famous sites along the Tokaido and in Edo, and Utagawa
Toyokuni III, famed for his portraits of actors and beauties, collaborated to each illustrate their specialty within
the same full-size colour woodblock print. The upper parts of the panel, which Hiroshige would create, featured
post-station towns along the Tokaido, or the famous sites around them, while the foregrounds, done by Toyokuni
III, featured historical characters or scenes from kabuki plays with a connection to these towns, along with local
customs and travellers.

【主要作品紹介】

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes “Ōiso”

Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes

Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes “Yui”“Yoshiwara”
This shows the scene where Tora Gozen is
combing the hair of Soga-no-Jūrō Sukenari.
The Soga Monogatari, which features themboth, depicts the Oiso prostitute Tora as thefavoured courtesan of Jūrō. After a series of
struggles, the Soga brothers finally strike
down Kudō Suketsune to avenge their father,but Jūrō dies in this fight, and so Tora
devotes the rest of her life to his memory. In
the background is the Koyurugi-no-Iso coast,a site often mentioned in poems.

When heading along the Tokaido to Kyoto,
the traveller heads north coming into the
Yoshiwara post-station town, so Mt. Fuji,
which has constantly been on the traveller’s
right, now appears to their left. This was
known as ‘Left Fuji’. The monk in the blackdyed cloak looking up at Fuji is the poet
Saigyō Hōshi, in a composition which recalls
his poem, ‘Like the smoke of Fuji, waving in
the wind as it disappears into the sky, do mythoughts vanish to I know not where’.

4This shows the sisters Miyagino and Shinobu
practicing their sword and sickle-and-chain
skills in a scene from Go-Taiheiki shiraishibanashi (where the sisters’ revenge wasparalleled with the 1651 Keian Uprising of
Yui Shōsetsu). With their father Shirōzaemon
killed by Shiga Daishichi (Tanabe Shima),
the two of them were saved by Uji Jōetsu (aConfucian scholar from Yui, the model for
Yui Shōsetsu) and his companions, and later
were able to avenge their father. The top partshows the Satta Pass, a famous site forviewing Mt. Fuji.

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2014.10.30■Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ
Part 2
Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital
Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital is a full-size series published by the printer Fujiokaya Keijirō between
1852 and 1853. Against backgrounds of Edo restaurants drawn by Hiroshige are kabuki characters drawn by

Toyokuni III, with the titles of both elements containing shared aspects that connect them. This was published after
both Toyokuni III, with his Famous Restaurants of the Time (early Bunsei era, circa 1820), and Hiroshige, with his
Famous Restaurants of Edo (mid- to late-Tenpo era, circa 1840), had found success with restaurant themes.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ

Famous Restaurants of the Eastern

Famous Restaurants of the Eastern

Famous Restaurants of the Eastern

Capital “The Umenoki Restaurant,

Capital “The Musashiya Restaurant,

Capital “The Yaohan Restaurant,

Kansyōjyō”

Benkei”

Ochiyo”

This shows the Musashi-ya restaurant with
Benkei from Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura.
Benkei, a warrior-priest in the service of
Minamoto-no-Yoshitsune, had pledged hislife to loyally serve his master, who wasbeing pursued by both the Taira Clan and his
brother Yoritomo, who had accused him ofconspiracy. Musashi-bō was Benkei’s
priestly name, thus providing the connection.

This shows the famous restaurant Yaohan
with O-Chiyo, the wife of the grocer Yaoya
Hanbe, the main character in the play Shinjū
Yoi Gōshin.
Having failed at her second marriage, OChiyo is bullied by her mother-in-law during
her third husband’s absence and thrown outof her house. Despairing of any hope for the
future, she and her husband Hanbe commit
suicide together. The restaurant name reflects
their surname, Yaoya.

This shows the Umenoki teahouse that stood in
the back streets of Shinjuku and the central
character of Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami,
Kan Shōjō (Sugawara-no-Michizane).
This depicts the ‘Flying Plum’ legend in theplay, where a plum tree from his home flew to
Kan Shōjō in exile in Dazaifu, Kyushu, as aresult of a plot by Fujiwara-no-Shihei. Kan
Shōjō is shown holding a branch of the tree in
his mouth, thus linking it with the name of therestaurant (‘Plum Tree’).

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2014.10.30■Introduction: Modern Woodblock Prints and Exhibiting artists
Scenery woodblock prints【Part 1】
Kanetaka Urata(b. 1939)

Drawn in a contrasting
composition are the vivid
Miho-Matsubara and heavy
Mt. Fuji. Miho-matsubara haslong been known for it’smagnificent view of Mt. Fuji
and is still crowded with many
people today.

Born in Shizuoka City; in 1958 Urata became the 6th
generation in his family to head the Ukiyo-e print studio“Hankuma” which has operated since the Edo era.
Designated as a Selected Preservation Techniques Holder ofImportant Folk Cultural Properties by Agency for Cultural
Affairs in 1976. Conducts demonstration of Ukiyo-e
printmaking at this museum in 2005.
1988

Grand prize of 4th Hamamatsu City Museum Print Competition

1999

Shizuoka Prefecture Culture Encouragement Prize

Advisor of Shizuoka Prefecture Print Association and
Shizuoka City Print Association

Part 1 /Kanetaka Urata
Miho Pine Trees and Mt. Fuji
Collection of the artist【Part 2】Kōichi Maeda(b. 1936)

Born in Tokyo; moved to Suntō District in Shizuoka
Prefecture in 1962. Maeda travels and creates woodblock
prints of Japanese scenery. In 1989 was commissioned
from the Shizuoka Prefecture to produce works for theexhibition “Beauty of Shizuoka” which are in the
Shizuoka Prefecture collection.
1977

This work is one of aseries drawings of theYui area. The way toKurasawa from Sattapass is expressedskillfully in gentle color.

Japan Print Association Prize in the Shizuoka Prefecture Print
Association Exhibition

1997

Prefectural Governor Prize in the Shizuoka Prefecture Print
Association Exhibition

Member of the Shunyō-kai association and the Shizuoka
Prefecture Print Association.

Morikazu Maeda

Part 2/Kōichi Maeda
Road to the Mountain Pass
Collection of the artist(1932–2007)

Born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. In 1966
Maeda participated in the “Genshoku” artist groupformed in Shizuoka. In 1985 he visited the USA toteach woodblock printing at the University of
Minnesota through the Agency for Cultural Affairs’s
Artist Overseas Deployment System Program.
1996

Abe River,
Shizuoka City.
The use of deformationof form and unrestrictedcolor create a fantasticalatmosphere.

Solo exhibition in California and received commendationfrom the California state legislature

2001

Prize of the Governor of Shizuoka for his contribution to
culture promotion

Part 2/Morikazu Maeda
Stone between the Waves
Private Collection

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2014.10.30■Introduction: Modern Woodblock Prints and Exhibiting artists
Figurative woodblock prints【Part 1】
Shōji Yamafuji(b. 1937)

From the master rakugo storyteller
series “Six Masters of Comic Story
Teller”. Kokontei Shinsho, afamous twentieth century rakugo
storyteller, is lovingly drawn
presenting his specialty, the “Kaendaiko” story.

Born in Tokyo. Yamafuji is an illustrator known for his
caricature work. As an entertainment commentator, he also
works in entertainment production.
1970

1st Kodansha Publishing Culture Prize for illustration

1971

17th Bungei Shunjū Manga Prize

1983

31st Kikuchi Kan Prize

2004

Awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon

Part 1/Shōji Yamafuji
Kokontei Shinsho
Collection of The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing【Part 2】
Makoto Wada

From the musicians and movie stars
series “Six constellations”. The
American Jazz trumpeter Louis
Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, isdrawn in his dressing room waitingfor his turn to play.

(b. 1936)

Born in Osaka. Aside from being a well-known Japanesedesigner and illustrator Wada is a scriptwriter and director
as well. He has been in charge of the “Shūkan Bunshun”
covers since 1977.
1974
1988

5th Kodansha Publishing Culture Prize for book design
31st Blue Ribbon Award for the movie “Ruby the Phantom Thief”
in which he directed and wrote

1994

42nd Kikuchi Kan Prize

1997

43rd Mainichi Design Prize

Part 2/Makoto Wada
Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong
Collection of The Adachi Foundation for the
Preservation of Woodcut Printing■Cooperation
The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing
The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing is the only remaining publisher in Japan withcraftsmen preserving the high skills to make Ukiyo-e. In order to preserve and inherit traditional woodcut printing
techniques developed through Ukiyo-e from the Edo Period, activities vary around a core of growing technicians.
Adachi continues to present many works, from reprinting Ukiyo-e woodcut prints to works by modern artists.

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2014.10.30■Related Event■Related Event 1／Gallery Talk by Kanetaka Urata “All About Modern-day Printing”
A conversation between Kanetaka Urata with Makoto Kawashima (Yui New Year’s Greeting Card Contest Head Judge)□Date/Time

November 23 (Sun.) 13:00 - 13:40□Cost

Free *museum entrance fee is required

Meeting place is the entrance hall of the museum. No pre-registration needed; unlimited enrollment■Related Event 2／Gallery Talks by a Museum Curator□Date/TimePart 1 “Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes” 2014 November 30 (Sun.) 13:00 - 13:30
Part 2 “Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital” 2015 January 11 (Sun.) 13:00 - 13:30□Cost

Free *museum entrance fee is required

Meeting place is the entrance hall of the museum. No pre-registration needed; unlimited enrollment.

■Information
9th Yui New Year’s Greeting Card Contest□Entries Accepted2014 November 1 (Sat.) – 2015 January 8 (Thu.) *no late entries accepted□Award Categories

Grand Prize (certificate & prize): 1
Excellence Award (certificate & prize): 2
Special Award (certificate & prize): 2
Selected Work Award (certificate & extra prize): 5
Honorable Mention (certificate & extra prize): multiple recipients

All entries will receive a participation prize.
□Participant Categories●Elementary School Students●Junior & Senior High School Students●Adults*Only those elementary school age and older are eligible; regardless of being a professional or amateur.
*Details are on our website.

*Changes may be made to the exhibit content and displayed works.

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2014.10.30■About the Museum
Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art is located at the Honjin site of the old Tōkaidō’s
16th post town Yui-shuku. It is the first art museum in Japan to focus on the works of Edo
Ukiyo-e Artist, Utagawa Hiroshige. There are approximately 1400 landscape woodblock prints
and other works within the Hiroshige collection, including Hiroshige’s masterpieces Fifty-Three
Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Hoeidō Edition), Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaidō and One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo. We aim to promote a new culture of Ukiyo-e through curated
exhibitions connecting Ukiyo-e with contemporary works. Visitors can enjoy the magnificenceof internationally loved Ukiyo-e works from Edo to the present.

About Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) Ukiyo-e artist
He became a pupil of Toyohiro Utagawa when he was about 15. Later he came to use the artist name ofHiroshige (広重) by combining the character of Hiro (広) from Toyohiro s name and Shige (重) from hisreal name. His work Fifty Three Station of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Hoeidō Edition) which caused a great
sensation, was published by Hoeidō when he was around 37. After that he continued to create Ukiyo-e prints
about the Tōkaidō and the landscape of Edo and became famous as landscape artist. While he was working
on what is considered his late-life masterpiece, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Hiroshige fell ill andpassed away at the age of 62. Hiroshige's bold composition and lyrical style is loved by all and his works
Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ
continue to influence artists all over the world.
Memorial Portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige
Hours 9:00 AM ‒ 5:00 PM (last admission 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed Mondays (if it falls on a holiday, then the following Tuesday)*The museum will be closed for the new year holiday from Dec. 28 (sun.) to Jan. 5 (Mon,)
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Organizer: Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Designated Manager: NPO Hexaproject
Cooperation: The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing
Cooperation: Shizuoka Prefecture Print Association
Cooperation: Shizuoka City Print Association

297-1 Yui, Shimizu-ku
Shizuoka City 421-3103
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Take the JR Tokaido Line and get off at Yui Station.
It is a 25-minute walk or 5-minute taxi ride from there.
□Access by car:
There are 21 parking spaces at the museum(Yui Honjin Park Parking)From Osaka, Nagoya area
Exit the Tomei Expressway at the Shimizu IC and it is 20-minutesby Route 1 from there.
From Tokyo, Yokohama area
Exit the Tomei Expressway at the Fuji IC and it is 25-minutesby Route 1 from there.
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2014.10.30■Press Images
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Utagawa Hiroshige,
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Kanetaka Urata
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©Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art『Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes “Yui”』From the Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
collection『Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital “The Musashiya Restaurant, Benkei”』From the Shizuoka
City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art collection『Kokontei Shinsho』Collection of The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing『Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong』Collection of The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of
Woodcut Printing『Miho Pine Trees and Mt. Fuji』Collection of the artist『Road to the Mountain Pass』Collection of the artist『Stone between the Waves』Private Collection

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