Utagawa Hiroshige
35 pieces 2 collections Edo (now Tokyo), Japan
The son of an Edo fire warden, Hiroshige became the great poet of travel and weather in Japanese prints. His views of the Tōkaidō road and of Edo itself — rain, snow, moonlight, fireworks — sold by the thousands in his lifetime, and later changed how Van Gogh and Whistler looked at the world. The pieces here are in the public domain, from museums that share their collections openly.
Collection
The Tōkaidō, station by station
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Hōeidō edition, 1833–34), in road order from Nihonbashi in Edo toward Kyoto. Shōno is here twice: two impressions of the same design.
7 pieces · 1833 · by Utagawa Hiroshige







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