Thematic Exhibition An Ukiyo-e Journey: Images of Travel from Edo Japan

With the publication of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji and related works by many Ukiyo-e artists that followed, landscape images became a popular genre of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints through the end of the Edo period. The tomb site of the 13th Lord of Owari, Tokugawa Yoshitsugu, who died at the age of fourteen, also included many landscape prints among its burial goods.
This exhibition presents images of the major highways of the day, as exemplified by Utagawa Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road, as well as other elaborately designed landscape prints and explores what these various Ukiyo-e artists hoped to convey through their landscape images.