Hiroshige, from the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway  (Kiso-kaido rokujukyu-tsugi no uchi)  Kano (number 54)

Two routes led from Edo, modern Tokyo, where the shogunate ruled Japan, to Kyoto, where the emperor was titular head of the country:  the Tokkaido and the Kisokaido, the latter a more northerly route.  Both had regular stopping places which Hiroshige and others often depicted in woodblock prints, in scenes many of which have become world-famous.  This print is from a 1922 recut of Hiroshige's Kisokaiko series, originally published in the late 1830s, acquired from a man whose mother purchased it in Kyoto in 1922.  Please see about recuts.

Image size13 3/4" x 8 5/8" on 15 1/4" x 10 3/4" sheet.  Good condition with some paper darkening, complete with all margins.  Recut c. 1922.

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