Catalog ID: 4995
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road
Edition: Original
Date: c.1831
Publisher: Hoeido
Reference No.: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Size: 9 -3/4 x 14 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road
Edition: Original
Date: c.1831
Publisher: Hoeido
Reference No.: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Size: 9 -3/4 x 14 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Travellers and two porters carrying a client in a kago (traveling chair) are forced to run through a sudden and heavy rainstorm near the town of Shono in Ise Province. The umbrella of the figure on the right has two inscriptions: Takenouchi, the publisher of the series, and Gojusan tsugi ('Fifty-three stations'), part of the title of the series.