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.
At the start of the Tokaido, Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo is depicted at dawn — fish sellers and merchants with their loads crossing in the early morning light, Mount Fuji faintly visible in the west. This Hoeido Tokaido print establishes the series' starting point, the bridge that marked the origin of all five great highways of Japan, its morning bustle contrasting with the formal ceremonies depicted in the Tokaido's final print at Kyoto's Sanjo Bridge.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nihon Bridge: Morning Scene (Nihonbashi, asa no kei), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (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 — Nihon Bridge: Morning Scene (Nihonbashi, asa no kei), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido is part of the The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series (print 1 of 55) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Nihon Bridge: Morning Scene (Nihonbashi, asa no kei), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and bridges, set at Nihonbashi.
