Kameyama, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"
- Date:
- c. 1806
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; chuban
Kameyama, 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 Kameyama, set on rising ground in present-day Mie Prefecture, was known for its castle-town character, and Hokusai gives the sheet a structured composition that emphasizes the relationship between road, slope, and built environment. Figures move through the scene with the matter-of-fact gait of travelers between stops, and Hokusai uses careful spacing and outline to maintain legibility within the modest sheet size in which the early Tokaido was issued. The restrained palette suits the early-nineteenth-century print culture that produced these compact station sets for an Edo readership curious about the great highway connecting the shogun's capital to Kyoto. As an Edo ukiyo-e print, the design illustrates how Katsushika Hokusai had begun to develop a system for representing travel, in which each station becomes both a documented place and an exercise in pictorial structure. The impression belongs to the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, where it sits among other sheets from the same complete set. For collectors and students of ukiyo-e print history, Hokusai's Kameyama offers an instructive look at the artist before his major landscape series, showing him already attentive to topography, architecture, and the human movement that knits a road together across fifty-three stops.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kameyama, 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 — Kameyama, 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.
Kameyama, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)" depicts landscapes and tōkaidō.