A print from the "Scenes of Famous Places along the Tokaido" series depicting Nanko — a famous scenic area or landmark — as part of the comprehensive visual survey of the road that connected Edo to Kyoto. The Tokaido series represented a major commission for Kyosai, allowing him to apply his dynamic visual sensibility to the most celebrated landscape subject in Japanese printmaking, a tradition dominated by Hiroshige's masterful series of the same road produced a generation earlier.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Nanko, from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Yes — Nanko, from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi is part of the Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road series by Kawanabe Kyosai.
Nanko, from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi depicts transportation, tōkaidō, and travel scenes.