Spring Antique Art and Arms, April 10th, 2021
Lot 69:
The Fifty-Three Stations of the TÃ…ÂkaidÃ…Â (æ±Ã&br vbar;µ·é&A circ;“五&Atild e;¥ÂÂä¸ ;‰æ¬Â& iexcl;, TÃ…ÂkaidÃ…Â GojÅ«san-tsugi), in the HÃ…ÂeidÃ…Â edition (1833â€â€œ1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the TÃ…ÂkaidÃ…Â in 1832.[1]The TÃ…ÂkaidÃ…Â road, linking the shÃ…Âgun’s capital, Edo, to the imperial one, KyÃ…Âto, was the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. It is also the most important of the "Five Roads" (GokaidÃ…Â)—the five major roads of Japan created or developed during the Edo period to further strengthen the control of the central shogunate administration over the whole country.Even though the HÃ…ÂeidÃ…Â edition is by far the best known, The Fifty-Three Stations of the TÃ…ÂkaidÃ…Â was such a popular subject that it led Hiroshige to create some 30 different series of woodcut prints on it, all very different one from the other by their size (Ã…Âban or chuban), their designs or even their number (some series include just a few prints).Print frame is 21" x 16,5", image is 14" x 9,5".
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