Yoshida (Print #35 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Print

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image depicts a traditional Japanese landscape, featuring a serene body of water with a long wooden bridge, distant mountains, and workers on scaffolding around a building, all under a gradient sky.

The image depicts a traditional Japanese landscape, featuring a serene body of water with a long wooden bridge, distant mountains, and workers on scaffolding around a building, all under a gradient sky.

Name/Title

Yoshida (Print #35 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Entry/Object ID

2014.12.4.35

Description

Bridge over the Toyo River, and in the right foreground workmen repairing the castle. This station flourished following the erection of the castle in 1505. Here a bridge was allowed to be built over the river flowing west of the station. The town has now grown to become Toyohashi City.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

Vault, Japanese, Architecture, People, Landscape
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

13-7/8 in