Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi 東海道五十三次)
This is a Japanese woodblock print series by Andō Hiroshige, 1797-1858, showing the fifty-three post stations along the Tōkaidō road, the highway linking Edo and Kyoto, issued as a popular series for travellers and townspeople. The pictures are landscapes with pines in the foreground, layered hills, flat water and small travelling figures, drawn in soft blues, greens and browns with red seal marks; a designer might take the economical layering of distance and the placement of tiny figures for scale.
