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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Clarence Buckingham Collection Source

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Japanese, 1797-1858

Hamamatsu, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

Date: c. 1837/42
Medium: Color woodblock print; chuban
Dimensions: 17.1 × 22.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 in.)
Inscription: Signed lower left
Department: Asian Art

Estimate £40,000 – 60,000

Offered in Asian Art & Works on Paper, 20 October 2026

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A Under raking light

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Hamamatsu, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

A private English collection, formed in the 1960s
By descent to the present owner

Literature

From the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Condition

A good impression, the blues fresh. Trimmed to the image on three sides.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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