Catalog record · 目録番号 71714
No. 15, Itahana
Catalog note / 解説
This print is from the series 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Highway'. Eisen collaborated on this series with the artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Eisen depicts Itahana, the fourteenth station on the Kisokaidô Highway. Centuries of peace during the Edo period, and the development of a sophisticated highway network, fostered a culture of mass travel in Japan. The Kisokaidô Highway ran east to west over the inland mountains and images of scenic spots along its route served as cheap and easy souvenirs. With its wide angle and low horizon, the composition of this unsigned print shows Eisen’s adoption of western pictorial techniques conveyed to Japan through the activities of Chinese and Dut…
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 1835-1842 (circa) · vam
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