Fifty-three Stations on the Tōkaidō Road, Fuchū (Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi 東海道五十三次)
This is a Japanese woodblock print series of the Tōkaidō road stations, made by Katsushika Hokusai in the 1840s for a general urban audience of travelers and print buyers. The images show travelers and townspeople resting along the road under trees, at teahouse-like wooden stalls, and in pale landscapes with distant pagodas and hills. A designer could take their flat colour fields, sparse ground lines, and calm, unshaded figure groupings as a compact model for layout.
