From Hiroshige's Hoeido Tokaido (1833–34), considered his greatest achievement and among the finest landscape print series in Japanese art. The Hoeido edition is worth many times more than Hiroshige's later Tokaido series. Early impressions show the distinctive crisp bokashi gradation that later wears away.
Ishibe, the fifty-first station on the Tokaido, sat in the gentle hill country of Omi Province east of Lake Biwa. Megawa no sato — "Megawa village" — was a hamlet just outside the station known for its charming rural setting. Hiroshige's Hoeido Tokaido print shows the village in a season of lush foliage, travelers passing through a landscape of farmhouses, fields, and wooded hills that characterized the quieter stretches of 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.
Ishibe: Megawa Village (Ishibe, Megawa no sato), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1833/34.
Yes — Ishibe: Megawa Village (Ishibe, Megawa no sato), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido is part of the The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series (print 52 of 55) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Ishibe: Megawa Village (Ishibe, Megawa no sato), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido depicts landscapes, tōkaidō, and travel scenes.
