Travel Scenes Prints (502)
Travel scenes document journeys along Japan's historic roads, sea routes, and pilgrimage paths, forming one of the woodblock print tradition's most commercially successful and artistically significant genres. The meisho-e (famous places) format, which presented sequential views of notable sites along a route, generated some of ukiyo-e's greatest masterworks and established templates that artists followed for generations. Hiroshige's "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" (1833-34), depicting the post stations along the great road connecting Edo and Kyoto, became the bestselling print series of the Edo period and defined the travel-scene genre. Its success spawned dozens of road series by Hiroshige himself and his contemporaries, documenting the Kisokaido, Nikko road, and other major routes. These prints served dual purposes — as art objects and as practical references for travelers, capturing the character of inns, teahouses, and scenic viewpoints along each route. The travel-scene tradition continued into the modern era as artists documented Japan's expanding railway network and new tourist destinations. Shin-hanga publishers like Watanabe Shozaburo commissioned series of famous views specifically targeting the tourist market, both domestic and international, creating prints that continue to define visual expectations of Japan's most celebrated landscapes.
Artists Known for Travel Scenes
Moscow
1917
Woodblock print
Gathering at Atakoyama — 愛宕山集躡の図
Woodblock print
Ceylon
1916
Woodblock print
Unknown (Michi no)
未知の
1968
Color woodblock print
Wonsan, Korea
Woodblock print
Nomura Yoshimitsu ?
Woodblock print
Benaras, Early Morning
1919
Woodblock print
Charles W BARTLETT
Not set
Woodblock print
Boston Public Library, Shôwa period, dated 1969
Woodblock print
Kyoto Giion sairei 京都祇園祭礼 / Shokoku Meisho Hyakkei 諸国名所百景
Woodblock print
Asian Collection Internet Auction
Woodblock print
Shimosa Naritasan keidai 下総成田山境内 / Shokoku meisho hyakkei 諸国名所百景
Woodblock print
Coming Home - Kison
Woodblock print
Taj Mahal Sunset
1919
Woodblock print
Woman of Brittany
1920
Woodblock print
TotalCount
ca. 1923.
Woodblock print
Moro vintas, Jolo Sulu
Woodblock print
Okabe
c. 1936
Color woodblock print; mitsugiriban
Sunset at Suez
Woodblock print
Akutagawa
c. 1801/06
Color woodblock print; kokonotsugiri-ban, surimono
Remark of Shanghai
Woodblock print
Untitled (shintaro-okazaki)
Woodblock print
Wakabayashi
1982
Color woodblock print
Sawatari in Joshu (Joshu Sawatari)
Woodblock print
The Canadian Scene: Seven Colour Prints and a Dissertation
1928
Pyramids of Egypt
Woodblock print
Sanhu Island
1941
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Udaipur
1916
color woodcut
Utagawa-hiroshige
1834
Woodblock print
Nagaura Kaido no Ame
Woodblock print
Scenes of Last Tokyo
Woodblock print
Hirado Island (FIRANDO)
Woodblock print
Hakone
Woodblock print
Arai: Remains of the Barrier Compound
Woodblock print
Hodogawa: 1942 Steam Engine No. D 51
Woodblock print
Mitsuke
Woodblock print
Honolulu
Woodblock print
Yokohama
1962
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Itamuro
Woodblock print
Shinagawa
Woodblock print
Kanagawa
Woodblock print
Maisaka: Morning Glow
Woodblock print
Mitsuke: Stone Embankment Along theRiver
Woodblock print
Kameyama
Woodblock print
Kasumigaseki
c. 1830–35
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Fujisawa
Woodblock print
Miya
Woodblock print
Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery
Woodblock print
Nihon-Bashi
Woodblock print
Shimada
Woodblock print
#16 Sekiya
Woodblock print
Shinguka, Tokyo
Woodblock print
Okabe
Woodblock print
Yoshiwara
Woodblock print
Numazu
Woodblock print
Okabe: High Speed Tunnel
Woodblock print
Woman as the Hero Taisō in Palanquin Holding a Pipe
c. 1830
Woodblock print (surimono), ink and color on paper
Fukuroi
Woodblock print
Hamamatsu: Factories in the MorningÅ
Woodblock print
Ishiyakushi: Fall Colors
Woodblock print
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Travel scenes document journeys along Japan's historic roads, sea routes, and pilgrimage paths, forming one of the woodblock print tradition's most commercially successful and artistically significant genres. The meisho-e (famous places) format, which presented sequential views of notable sites along a route, generated some of ukiyo-e's greatest masterworks and established templates that artists followed for generations.
Kawase Hasui, Jun'ichiro Sekino, and Utagawa Hiroshige are among the artists most associated with travel scenes in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 502 prints tagged with travel scenes, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.