Fifty-three Stations on the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ehon ekiro no suzu 東海道五十三次絵本駅路鈴) : [volume 1]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1840 · Edo? : Iseya Rihei · 14 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book of the Tōkaidō road's fifty-three post stations, published in Edo around 1840 by Iseya Rihei and made by Katsushika Hokusai with kyōka poetry. The pages are wide double spreads of travellers, porters and palanquins along the road, with rose-pink cloud bands and Mount Fuji rising in the distance. A designer could take the flat colour planes, the layered pink cloud bands and the small figures set against wide landscape, a compositional model for travel and journey imagery.

Kyōka · Tōkaidō (Japan) -- In art · Tōkaidō (Japan) -- In literature

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