Utagawa Hiroshige, No. 13 Numazu—Dusk Scene, color woodcut from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido edition). Private collection.
Boston.com: Exhibit highlights Hiroshige's influence
WASHINGTON --The beauty and humor that he pictured on the road between two great cities brought fame to Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the greatest Japanese artists of the 1800s, and influenced French and American painters from Paul Cezanne to James McNeill Whistler. The Phillips Collection has put together a rare exhibit of all "53 Stages on the Tokaido" Road, first published in 1863-4 as an accordion-like album, but now widely scattered. There are in fact 55 woodblock prints in the set: an additional one from Edo (Tokyo), the start of the trip, and another at the terminus, Kyoto, nearly 300 miles to the southwest...more...
