Ukiyo-e 40, UKy-8, Handbag - Kuniyoshi, Obsessed with Cats

Ukiyo-e Bag - Obsessed with Cats. Art inspires fashion - Exotic style fashion. Ukiyo-e (Japanese, meaning "Pictures of the Floating World"). Ukiyo-e depicts and records the life of Japanese people in the Edo period. It represents Japanese art of 17-19 centuries. Obsessed with Cats (Cats Suggested As The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido)「其のまま地口 猫飼好五十三疋」In English this print is generally named as “Cats Suggested as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”. However, it is sometimes referred to as “Obsessed with Cats”.This print is a fun spoof on Hiroshige's “The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”. Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重, 1797–1858) created his famous and most successful series of “The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido” (東海道五十三次) in 1833–34 after his first travel along the Tokaido in 1832. This series consists of 53 prints, each of which represents one of the 53 post stations on the Tokaido route (The Eastern Sea Road).Tokaido, meaning Eastern Sea Road, links the shogun's capital,