The Exhibition of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido By Utagawa Hiroshige
-Hoeido Publication & Reisho Tokaido version-

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Utagawa Hiroshige Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido - Kanbara

The Exhibition of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido By Utagawa Hiroshige -Hoeido Publication & Reisho Tokaido version-

Prefectural Museum of Art will hold the Hiroshige Exhibition, featuring“The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido”, as we celebrate his 200th birthday this year. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1859) was the first painter to introduce a landscape print in Ukiyoeart, which had been famous for featuring beautiful women and actors. The first succesful pieces of his art were the widely-known “The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido” (Hoeido Publishing) series. Hiroshige skillfully paints natural scenary and landscape of the post towns along the highway from Nihonbashi (current city in Tokyo) to Sanjo-Ohashi (current city in Kyoto). He also depicts travling common people vividly. His paintings were popular among those people inlate Edo-period of Tokugawa Shogunate. This series of paintings had not only become his first success but they became his monumentalpieces of his art. Hiroshige later also producedmany masterpieces in the field of landscape priting. At our exhibition, we diplay 55 pieces of Hoeidopublication and other 110 pieces that also describe the Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido (Reisho Tokaido version) on every post town. Please enjoy Hirosh ige's world of traveling throughout the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.