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ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist) / Ezakiya Kichibei (Publisher) / 江崎屋吉兵衛 (Publisher)
Created1841 to 1842
DescriptionThis print is number 46 of the Gyōsho edition of Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road. It depicts the post house at Shōno (in present-day Mie prefecture), where travelers are changing horses mid-journey along the Tōkaidō Road.
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1835 to 1841
Description
Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1851
Description
This diptych shows the ghost of Asakura Tōgo 朝倉當吾 returning to haunt the man responsible for his death, the corrupt governor Orikoshi Tairyō 織越大領. A kappa (a traditional folk monster) tumbles comically at Orikoshi’s feet.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist) / Tsutaya Kichizō (Publisher) / 蔦屋吉蔵 (Publisher)
Created1847 to 1848
Description
This print is the first in the Tsutaya Kichizō edition of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road and depicts Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo, which the traveler would cross on the way to the first station at Shinagawa.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige I (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist)
Created1855
Description
This print is part of an early 20th century reissue of a series published in 1855. It depicts Mt. Fuji towering behind the slope of Mt. Ashitaka as seen from Hara in present day Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Hara was the 13th post station for travelers along the Tōkaidō Road between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto.
Created1855
Description
This shini-e (death print) commemorates the deaths of three kabuki actors: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII (right), who committed suicide in 1854, and Arashi Otohachi III (center) and Bandō Shūka I (left) who both died in 1855.