Otsu. Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797-1858 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Overall: 8 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (22.2 x 34.9cm). Date: ca. 1840.The highway called the Tokaido stretched about 290 miles from Nihonbashi in the center of Edo to the Great Sanjo Bridge in Kyoto, a journey of ten days or two weeks. Between Edo and Kyoto, fifty-three stations served the travelers' needs. All along the Tokaido, the grandeur of spectacular landscapes and seascapes was punctuated with a variety of human activities. This print vividly illustrates travelers on a busy street of the Otsu station from a bird's-eye view in an oblique perspective commonly featured in East Asia.This series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, published in 1848-49, is popularly known as the "Reisho Tokaido" from the archaic style of the calligraphy in the cartouche of each print. Another series, published in 1833-34, is more widely known. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Otsu. Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797-1858 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Overall: 8 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (22.2 x 34.9cm). Date: ca. 1840.The highway called the Tokaido stretched about 290 miles from Nihonbashi in the center of Edo to the Great Sanjo Bridge in Kyoto, a journey of ten days or two weeks. Between Edo and Kyoto, fifty-three stations served the travelers' needs. All along the Tokaido, the grandeur of spectacular landscapes and seascapes was punctuated with a variety of human activities. This print vividly illustrates travelers on a busy street of the Otsu station from a bird's-eye view in an oblique perspective commonly featured in East Asia.This series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, published in 1848-49, is popularly known as the "Reisho Tokaido" from the archaic style of the calligraphy in the cartouche of each print. Another series, published in 1833-34, is more widely known. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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