Gojusan-tsugi meisho zu-e (Famous sights of the fifty-three stations) ["Vertical Tokaido"]
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Gojusan-tsugi meisho zu-e (Famous sights of the fifty-three stations) ["Vertical Tokaido"]
A complete set of fifty-five woodblock prints, mounted in an album, each sheet signed Hiroshige hitsu, censor's seal aratame (certified), published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido).
Each sheet approx. 36cm x 25cm (14 1/8in x 9 7/8in)
Footnotes
The 514 km long Tōkaidō Road linked the shōgun's capital of Edo (present day Tokyo) to the imperial capital Kyoto. On the highway there were fifty-three halting places. These halting places, together with the starting point at the Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge) in Edo and the finish at Kyoto, make up the fifty-five subjects commonly found in the series of views of the Tōkaidō. Hiroshige created several series depicting the fifty-three Stations - the first known as 'The Great Tokaido' was published in 1833.
In 1855, in collaboration with the prominent publisher Tsutaya Kichizo, Hiroshige released a distinctive set portraying the fifty-three stations along the Tokaido Road in vertical format. These innovative compositional works make use of the paper's vertical structure by using an overhead view to create depth and perspective as well as using Kinzo-gata Kōzu by enlarging objects in the foreground.
For another complete set, see the British Museum, accession no. 1973,0723,0.32.