About This Print

Source:Information on this station taken from the wikipedia article "53 Stations of the Tōkaidō."
Print number 45 in this series of 58¹ prints titled Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road issued in October 1865, depicting Shōno the forty-fifth station along the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan.  It was the smallest station on the Tōkaidō.

In this view, Hiroshige II has chosen not to set the seen at night in driving rain, as did his master Hiroshige I.  Perhaps the publisher thought the cost of carving and printing such a complex scene would be prohibitive.


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	#521
Title or Description	Shōno, Ichirizuka (Shōno, Ichirizuka 庄野 一り塚 )
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	good -  thinning top corners where previously mounted; minor wrinkling, 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 11.20704