Sixty-Nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Miyanokoshi, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 10
August 23, 2011 (Tue) - September 19, 2011 (Mon)
Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido Highway, a series of ukiyo-e works by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige, consists of 70 prints created of scenes at the post stations from Nihonbashi (in present-day Tokyo) to Otsu (in present-day Shiga Prefecture). Along with Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido it is an excellent example of ukiyo-e color woodblock prints that depict life on the roads of Edo-period Japan. The entire series will be exhibited in this gallery in two parts. The second 35 prints, created for the latter part of the highway from Yabuhara Station (in present-day Nagano Prefecture) to Otsu, are currently on display.
Exhibit includes:
Sixty-Nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Miyanokoshi, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-Nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Nakatsugawa, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-Nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway Cormorant Fishing on Nagara River, Godo, By Keisai Eisen, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-Nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Otsu, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century