Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 22140

Yoshida - Upright Tokaido

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
Date / 年代
1855
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / mfa
Digital record / 画像記録
2000 × 1493 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Published by / 公開者
水野ナギ
Rights / 権利
Commercial license required
Attribution / 表記
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Catalog note / 解説

"Hiroshige's Reisho Tökaidö Series" Over the course of his career, Hiroshige published approximately forty different versions of the Tökaidö print series, with sixteen of these versions including all fifty-five stations. His first series, published with Hoeidö (of which several stations are currently on display in the Robert F. Lange Foundation Gallery), remained his most popular, but the constant demand created by the Hoeidö series caused Hiroshige to return to the Tökaidö theme again and again. The current exhibition also includes prints from another Tökaidö series designed by Hiroshige, commonly known as the “reisho” series since it uses clerical script (reisho, a type of script first de…

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