Yoshiwara Station No. 15 (Yoshiwara shuku jūgo 吉原宿 十五), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō” (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi 東海道五十三次之内)
Yoshiwara Station No. 15 (Yoshiwara shuku jūgo 吉原宿 十五), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō” (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi 東海道五十三次之内)

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Yoshiwara Station No. 15 (Yoshiwara shuku jūgo 吉原宿 十五), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō” (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi 東海道五十三次之内),

1830s

Kesai Eisen 渓斎英泉, 1790–1848; born and died Tokyo, Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
x1965-45
Edo printmakers frequently created sets of images illustrating scenic locations around Japan. Hiroshige made his celebrated series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō in 1833, after traveling this important route and sketching sites along the way. The Tōkaidō, or “Eastern sea route,” was a three-hundred-mile road with fifty- five official stops or stations, connecting the two most important cities of Edo Japan: Kyoto and Edo (present-day Tokyo). Eisen produced a set of Tōkaidō road prints, including the figure of a courtesan in front of Mount Fuji that you see in this group. The most renowned artist of the period, Hokusai produced his well-known print of figures crossing a suspension bridge for a series on provincial bridges, both real and imagined.

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Title
Yoshiwara Station No. 15 (Yoshiwara shuku jūgo 吉原宿 十五), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō” (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi 東海道五十三次之内)
Dates

1830s

Maker
Kesai Eisen 渓斎英泉
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
block: 35.7 × 24.4 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 41 × 29.1 cm (16 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.) mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Hugh Trumbull Adams, Class of 1935
Object Number
x1965-45
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Inscription
inscribed top: 筆染める思いの種よ春けしき
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
japanese printmaking styles, oban, woodblock prints, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
mountains, actors, scrolls (information artifacts), figures (representations), women

Hugh Trumbull Adams, Class of 1935 (1913–2009), by 1965; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1965.

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