Tokaido gojusantsugi, Pl.38
1868-1912
Utagawa Hiroshige captures the biting chill of a winter journey in this woodblock print from his famous series, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Here at the Fujikawa post station, heavy snowflakes blanket the landscape, burying the rooftops of a small village and weighing down the bare branches of trees. A lone traveler and a pack horse trudge through the deep drifts, their forms huddled against the cold, while the sky shifts from a dusky purple to a snowy gray. Hiroshige actually traveled this route himself, and his firsthand experience of Japan's rugged terrain helped make this series a massive bestseller that even inspired Vincent van Gogh!
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