Fujieda from 'Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido Road'

Category

Library Item

Item no

309

Title

Fujieda from 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road' (Tokaido gojusan no uchi). Hoeido edition.

Description

Station 23 on the Tokaido Road. A small party of travellers has stopped outside a rest house in order to change horses and luggage handlers. Well dressed officials stand at the back overseeing the activity and make note of porterage fares in a record book.

Artist / maker

Hiroshige, Ando

Date

1831

Size

23.3 x 35 cm.

Type

Wood cut

Location

Art and Design Library

The following information appears on the print:

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu
Artist: Ando/Utagawa Hiroshige

The Tokaido (literally the 'eastern sea road'), was one of two main routes connecting the emperor's capital in Kyoto and the seat of the Shogun's administration in Edo (Tokyo). There were 53 numbered stations on this route which, depending on weather conditions, could take up to a month to complete. This is number 23 on the route. In total there were 55 prints in this series. Hiroshige completed several versions of this travel series, which were immediately successful.

This is one of a set of 50 prints donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.

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