About This Print
A daimyō's procession crossing the Sakawa River near Odawara, the 10th of 53 stations along the Tōkaidō Road, which connected Edo (modern day Tokyo), where the shōgun resided, to Kyoto, where the emperor resided. The scene depicted by Hiroshige II is quite like that of his teacher Utagawa Hiroshige I, as can be seen below.
Utagawa Hiroshige I
Odawara, Sakawagawa from the series
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, c. 1833-34
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11.30190
About the Series
One of two series of chuban-size vertical prints designed by the artist depicting the stations along the Tōkaidō. This series titled simply Tōkaidō Road (東海道) was published by Tsutaya Kichizō (the same publisher who published Utagawa Hiroshige I's famous "Vertical Tōkaidō" series1) between the 8th month of 1863 and the 12th month of 1867, a period of over three years. It is not known why the publishing period was so extended for these prints. Hiroshige II's other series titled Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五拾三駅) was issued by the publisher Maruya Tetsujirō in the 10th month of 1865 and is represented by a number of prints in this collection.
1 The formal name of the "vertical Tōkaidō" series is Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations [Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue], published in 1855.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1202 |
| Title or Description | Odawara 小田原 (Print no. 10 in the series) |
| Series | Tōkaidō Road (東海道) |
| Artist | Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869) |
| Signature |  Risshō ga 立祥画 |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date |  卯十二改 Hare 12 aratame |
| Publisher |  |
| Impression | good |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - mounting remnants verso in six spots; paper thinning lower left corner |
| Genre | ukiyo-e, fūkei-ga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | vertical chūban |
| H x W Paper | 9 x 6 11/16 in. (22.9 x 17 cm) |
| Literature | 8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (21.4 x 16.5 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston RES.54.191.6 |
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