Utagawa Hiroshige's "Tōkaidō Road" Series: Works from the Allentown Art Museum
Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road” printed in 1833 and 1834, is a series of Japanese woodblock prints that document the artist’s first journey on the Tōkaidō, the “Eastern Sea Road.” This arterial highway connected the shogunal capital of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) with the imperial capital, Kyoto.
