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Compare the sharp blues of the rider and the bearers in front with the gray gate, trees and walkers fading into the mist behind them.
The Tōkaidō was the highway between Edo and Kyoto, and Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, his first series on the road, published in 1833 and 1834, followed a journey he made along it. At Mishima travelers set out before the morning mist has lifted: a rider on a packhorse and a palanquin with its bearers are printed in strong color, while the shrine gate, trees and walkers behind dissolve into flat gray shapes.
Color woodblock print; oban · 24.3 × 37.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- 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
- Art Institute of Chicago: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Cleveland Museum of Art: Yokkaichi: View of the Mie River, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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- Museum title
- 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
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- c. 1833/34
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 24.3 × 37.5 cm (9 9/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of H. R. Warner
- 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.