About This Print
Source: information on this station taken from the wikipedia article "53 Stations of the Tōkaidō."Print number 40 in this series of 581 prints titled Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road issued in October 1865, depicting, Chiryū the thirty-ninth station along the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Chiryū in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was the westernmost post town in Mikawa Province. Three hundred and thirty kilometers from Nihonbashi, the start of the Tōkaidō, it took approximately 10 days to get there.
Chiryū-juku was well known as a horse trading town and the artist has pictured horses with their minders in a grassy field.
1 The 58 prints are made up of the 55 views of the 53 stations (includes two alternate states of prints for Minakuchi station and Ishibe station) plus the Nihonbashi starting point print and two Kyoto terminus point prints.
About the Series
See the section titled "The 1865 Series Tōkaidō gojūsan eki (Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō)" under Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869) for details on this series.Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #524 |
| Title or Description | Chiryū, Horsemarket (Chiryū Umaichi 池鯉鮒 馬市 ) |
| Series | Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (東海道五拾三駅 Tôkaidô gojûsan eki) |
| Artist | Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869) |
| Signature | Risshō ga |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1865 (Keiô 1), 10th month |
| Publisher | Maruya Tetsujirō |
| Impression | good |
| Colors | good |
| Condition | fair - thinning top corners where previously mounted and along margin edges; minor fading and soiling |
| Genre | ukiyo-e, fûkei-ga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | vertical chûban |
| H x W Paper | 9 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (17.5 x 23.5 cm) |
| Literature | |
| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11.20709 |
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