Artist field note

Utagawa Hiroshige

Weather turns travel into feeling.

Appears inJapan
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Hiroshige
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

03 / 05

The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

1833-1834

A famous road unfolds through inns, labour, weather and the changing rhythm of travel.

The five in one idea

Hiroshige made landscape inseparable from season, journey and the emotional life of passing through.