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Pick out the travelers on the green street, then follow the line of birds over the trees to the castle and the poem above it.
Hiroshige designed more than one series on the stations of the Tōkaidō. This smaller set of about 1837 to 1842 is known as the Tōkaidō with Poem, and its views carry a kyōka, a comic verse, written in the sky. At Hamamatsu travelers in wide straw hats lead packhorses and carry a palanquin along the main street, while a castle rises on its stone walls above the roofs.
Color woodblock print; chuban · 17.1 × 22.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
- Art Institute of Chicago: Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido
- Cleveland Museum of Art: Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo
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- Museum title
- Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- c. 1837/42
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions
- 17.1 × 22.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.