Hakone: yamanaka yako no zue (Hakone: Night Travel in the Mountains)

Description

Colour woodblock print number 11 entitled Hakone: yamanaka yako no zue (Hakone: Night Travel in the Mountains) from the series Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue (Famous Places Along the 53 Stations [of the Tōkaidō] Illustrated) depicting an evening scene of travellers, some being carried in palanquins and others bearing torches, as they pass through the mountains: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

Museum reference

A.595.52.9

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Tsutaya, Publisher

Date

1855

Associations

Depicted: Tokaido (road), Honshu, Japan, East Asia
Depicted: Hakone-machi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, East Asia