No. 19, Ejiri: Koyoshida Bridge (Koyoshida no hashi), from the series The Tōkaidō Road, The Fifty-three Stations (Tōkaidō, Gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

No. 19, Ejiri: Koyoshida Bridge, dated 1845, comes from one of the later Tōkaidō series produced by Utagawa Hiroshige, in which the Edo ukiyo-e master returned to the highway that had made his name to offer fresh variations on its familiar stations. Ejiri lay near the head of Suruga Bay and was associated in the gazetteer literature with views of Miho no Matsubara and Mount Fuji; the Koyoshida Bridge in this design is a more modest local subject, a wooden bridge over a small stream on the road through the station. Hiroshige's composition emphasizes the bridge as a horizontal interval in the broader landscape, with travelers crossing it, banks of trees framing the foreground, and a measured recession into the hills beyond. The landscape print conventions he had refined since the 1833 Hōeidō series — clear spatial bands, attentive figural detail, atmospheric gradation in sky and ground — operate here in mature form. Late Tōkaidō series of this kind testify to the sustained market for road imagery and to Hiroshige's willingness to revisit his foundational subject with new compositional choices. The Harvard Art Museums impression of this 1845 Ejiri design preserves a high-quality record of the series and supports comparison with the earlier and later Tōkaidō sets that mark different phases of his career.