Hara, from the series ""Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)""
- Date:
- c. 1806
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; chuban
Hara, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi), is a small [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) print designed by Katsushika Hokusai around 1801. The station of Hara lay along the coastal stretch of the great highway with Mount Fuji rising close at hand, and Hokusai gives the location its characteristic balance of low foreground travelers, settled houses, and an open expanse beyond. The composition trades elaborate detail for legibility, an approach suited to the modest sheet size in which Hokusai's early Tokaido was issued. Figures move along the road with the easy directness of travelers caught between stops, and the print's restrained palette emphasizes line over color, letting the viewer read the station at a glance. As an Edo ukiyo-e print, the work belongs to a wave of compact travel imagery that prepared the ground for the larger Tokaido sets later in the century, but its interest lies in seeing how Katsushika Hokusai approached the same subject matter that would become central to his mature landscape practice. Held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the impression is part of a complete set of small-format Tokaido stations that document Hokusai's structural thinking about journey and place. Collectors of ukiyo-e print history value these early sheets for the clarity they bring to Hokusai's development, showing him organizing landscape, architecture, and figure into the kind of legible scene that would become a hallmark of his later, more ambitious series.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
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Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1934
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hara, from the series ""Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"" was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in c. 1806.
Yes — Hara, from the series ""Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"" is part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido series by Katsushika Hokusai.
Hara, from the series ""Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"" depicts landscapes and tōkaidō.