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Hiroshige, from the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway
(Kisokaido rokujukyu-tsugi no uchi)
On-take (number 50)

There were two routes 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, a more northerly route. Both had regular stopping places which Hiroshige and others often depicted the sights along the way in woodblock prints, some of which have become world-famous images. This print is from a 1922 recut of Hiroshige's Kisokaido series, originally published in the late 1830s, acquired from a man whose mother bought it in Kyoto in 1922.
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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