At kakegawa, the twenty-seventh stop along the highway between edo (old tokyo) and kyoto, a swordsmith identified as shimosaka is shown with a letter. In the 1830s and 1840s, landscape prints depicting the fifty-three resting places were immensely popular. In this series, kuniyoshi used the theme as a scaffolding for the depiction of figures, each of whom had a connection (sometimes extremely farfetched) with the place of the title. Object Type: woodcut print. Genre: ukiyo-e. Date: between 1845 and 1846 (late Edo). Place of creation: Japan. Dimensions: height: 36.8 cm (14.5 in); width: 24.2 cm (9.5 in). Medium: pigments on mulberry paper. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Series Title: Fifty-three pairings along the Tokaido Road. Ibaya Sensaburo - Tokaido gojusan tsui - Walters 95569
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