No 24 Shimada Oi-gawa Shungan / Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no uchi
- Series:
- The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (print 24 of 55)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Typical Price
- Later reprint (Meiji–Taisho era publishers): $100–$600
- Good later impression (Edo-period, worn blocks or muted bokashi): $2,000–$10,000
- Good early impression (crisp lines, fine bokashi gradation): $10,000–$40,000
- Fine early impression (vivid color, sharp impression, sound paper): $40,000–$100,000
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.
Description
Shimada, station 24 on the Tokaido, sat on the Suruga bank of the Oi River — one of the most formidable barriers on the highway, a swift, broad river without any bridge that travelers crossed on the shoulders of hired bearers. This print from a Tokaido series shows the Oi riverbank during spring, when snowmelt from the Akaishi mountains swelled the current and made the crossing both dramatic and occasionally impossible.
More Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige
More Tōkaidō Prints
Rain at Maekawa in Sagami Province (Soshu Maekawa no ame), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
Totsuka: The Fork at Motomachi (Totsuka, Motomachi betsudo), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
Shinkawabata at Handa, Owari Province (Bishu Handa Shinkawabata), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
No 24 Shimada Oi-gawa Shungan / Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no uchi was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重).
Yes — No 24 Shimada Oi-gawa Shungan / Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no uchi is part of the The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series (print 24 of 55) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
No 24 Shimada Oi-gawa Shungan / Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi no uchi depicts tōkaidō and travel scenes.