Hiratsuka (Print #8 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image depicts a serene Japanese landscape with towering mountains and lush greenery, where travelers carrying baskets walk along a winding path lined with trees, under a sky transitioning from pink to blue.

The image depicts a serene Japanese landscape with towering mountains and lush greenery, where travelers carrying baskets walk along a winding path lined with trees, under a sky transitioning from pink to blue.

Name/Title

Hiratsuka (Print #8 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Entry/Object ID

2014.12.4.8

Description

A zigzag road, lined with a few trees, traversing fields, and a courier running along and passing two other travellers. In the background a dark, round-topped hill, behind which a white Fuji appears in the distance. Here, the Tokaido Highway runs along a low causeway by the ocean. The man running is one of the professional couriers who worked in relays and covered the distance of 489 km between Edo and Kyoto in about 90 hours.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

Vault, Japanese, People, Landscape, Plants and Nature
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

13-7/8 in