The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido is a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige, published in its first and best known edition between 1833 and 1834. Comprising 55 prints covering the 53 official post stations of the Tokaido road between Edo and Kyoto plus its two endpoints, the series depicts travelers, weather and local scenery along the route. It established landscape, or fukei-ga, as a major theme of ukiyo-e printmaking, became the best-selling series of Japanese prints of its time, and helped launch Hiroshige's reputation, later influencing Western artists including Vincent van Gogh and the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, both of whom collected Hiroshige's prints.
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Year CreatedHoeido edition published 1833-1834, after Hiroshige travelled the Tokaido in 1832; year given is the edition's first year. MediumUkiyo-e woodcut print series 1 Connections
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1. Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Wikipedia)
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The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833-1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.
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The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido is a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige, published in its first and best known edition between 1833 and 1834.
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