Kusatsu - #53 of the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Road series.

Print

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

This image depicts a lively Japanese street scene set in the Edo period, featuring a bustling tea house with patrons enjoying drinks, while outside, several men are energetically pulling a palanquin along the road, showing a dynamic interaction between daily life and travel, surrounded by traditional architecture and natural scenery.

This image depicts a lively Japanese street scene set in the Edo period, featuring a bustling tea house with patrons enjoying drinks, while outside, several men are energetically pulling a palanquin along the road, showing a dynamic interaction between daily life and travel, surrounded by traditional architecture and natural scenery.

Name/Title

Kusatsu - #53 of the "Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Road" series.

Entry/Object ID

1975.2.48

Description

The road to the central mountains branched off here making this one of the busier Tokaido stations. The shop is selling rice cakes for which the area was known. The figures are of typical Hiroshige style.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

Vault, Japanese, People, Architecture
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date made

circa 1920

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-3/4 in

Width

14 in

Dimension Description

frame size

Height

16 in

Width

21 in

Exhibitions

Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1975
Loan - Japanese Prints @ Muskegon Hackley Museum of Art: 1976
Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1980
Permanent Collection - Center Art Gallery: summer 1989
Loan - Japanese Prints @ Dordt College Gallery 6/28/04-10/16/04