Yoshida Station

Yoshida Station is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1855.

Original Woodcut print Oban yokoe.

From the series "Gojusan tsugi meisho zue" (53 Stations of the Tokaido Road), a rare specimen of a lifetime edition of the the station Yoshida. Arrival of a daimyo procession and fishing boats returning home on the Toyo River, the castle behind fog banks on the right.

Signed: Hiroshige hitsu. Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo. Censored by Aratame.

Good impression with visible wood grain (water on the right), left margin probably new, restored loss at right margin, foxing (restored), few tiny wormholes, remains of a former backing.

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Utagawa Hiroshige, born Ando Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.