「先将軍徳川家累代像」
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Waseda University
- Image courtesy of
- Waseda University
Description
The title Saki Shogun Tokugawa-ke Ruidai-zo translates as 'Portrait Likenesses of Successive Generations of the Former Shogunal Tokugawa House.' Published after the Meiji Restoration (1868), which ended more than two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule, this print belongs to a category of retrospective portraiture that treated the shogunate as historical subject. Kyosai, who trained under Edo-period masters and maintained complex attitudes toward the old regime, likely arranged the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns in ranked or sequential composition. Such genealogical portrait prints drew on earlier kakemono painting traditions while adapting them to the mass-distribution medium of woodblock.
More Prints by Kawanabe Kyosai
Tenpôzan in Osaka: Viewing Children's Sumo (Naniwa Tenpôzan kodomo sumô shôran), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô
1863
Woodblock print
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Original Museum Lithographic Exhibition Poster
from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
Woodblock print
Gontazaka, from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi
Woodblock print
Frequently Asked Questions
「先将軍徳川家累代像」 was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).