No. 26: Mochizuki, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)"
- Date:
- c. 1835/38
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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.
Station 26 on the Kisokaido mountain highway, Mochizuki sits in the high plateau of Shinano Province. This oban print from the "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido" series, produced jointly by Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen around 1835–38, renders the post-town under open skies, with the surrounding farmland lending the scene a quieter, more rural character than the busier Tokaido stations.
c. 1835/38
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1835/38
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1835/38
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1835/38
Color woodblock print; oban
No. 26: Mochizuki, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)" was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1835/38.
Yes — No. 26: Mochizuki, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)" is part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō series by Utagawa Hiroshige.
No. 26: Mochizuki, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)" depicts kisokaidō and travel scenes.
