Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido ( - )
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, was a series of woodblock views first made famous by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1834. The Tokaido connected Edo where the shogun resided, with the then capital of Kyoto where the Emperor lived. It ran along the eastern coast of Honshu and along the road, there were 53 different post stations, which provided stables, food, and lodgings for travellers. The road ran through some of the most picturesque scenery in Japan. The series inspired generations of artists not only in Japan but in Europe.
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Utagawa Sadahide (1807 - 1873)
Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) Also known as Gountei Sadahide, was born Hashimoto Kenjiro, in Fusa Province in Shimosa. He joined Utagawa school master Kunisada's studio in the 1820s and became one of the master's most prominent students. As a member of the school, he took on Utagawa's surname, and also used the surname Gountei as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name late in his career.
In the 1850s Sadahide produced the series New Overseas Stories, depicting the First Opium War in China. In the 1859 to 1862 he produced a large number of Yokohama-e prints of foreigners and the goods they brought to Japan after the country ended its self-imposed isolation in 1854. Among these prints was the series, Foreigners Viewing Famous Places in Edo.
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