Fujisawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
- Date:
- c. 1837/42
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Source:
Utagawa Hiroshige's Fujisawa is the sixth station of the Tokaido and appears here in the 1832 Kyoka iri Tokaido, where each landscape is paired with a comic thirty-one-syllable verse. The Art Institute of Chicago holds an impression (object 4297) of this Edo ukiyo-e landscape print. Fujisawa was a religious as well as a postal stop, home to the great Yugyoji temple and a familiar starting point for pilgrims continuing to Enoshima. Hiroshige's design uses a broad arrangement of buildings, gateway, and road to suggest both the bustle of the town and the surrounding rural fields, while travelers and townspeople populate the foreground. The flat color planes of the buildings sit against soft bokashi gradations in the sky, with the deep indigo of the upper edge giving the sheet a quiet sense of time of day. The integration of inset kyoka verse and printed image is one of the defining traits of this Tokaido set, which Hiroshige produced for a different publisher than the better-known Hoeido edition and with a noticeably calmer mood. For collectors of Edo ukiyo-e, the sheet illustrates how he could revisit a familiar station without merely repeating earlier compositions, instead emphasizing the orderly grid of the town and the easy passage of foot traffic along the highway.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fujisawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido) was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1837/42.
Fujisawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido) depicts landscapes and mount fuji.
