About This Print
Source:Information on this station taken from the wikipedia article "53 Stations of the Tōkaidō."The 44th print in this series of 581 prints titled Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road issued in October 1865, picturing Yokkaichi, the 43rd station and fourth largest town on the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Yokkaichi, in Mie Prefecture, Japan. It was 12.8 km from Kuwana-juku, the preceding post town.
This print is a chirimen-e or crêped print. For the crêped version of the print, the same woodblocks are used as for the paper edition, but by the time the process is finished, the piece has shrunken considerably. See chirimen-e in the Glossary for additional information on this type of print.
The non-crêped print measures 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. and the crêped version is 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., approximately
a 25% reduction in size caused by the crêping process.
non-crêped print
1 The 58 prints are made up of the 55 views of the 53 stations (includes two alternate states of prints for Minakuch 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 | #425 |
| Title or Description | Yokkaichi (四日市) |
| 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 | after 1865 (Keiô 1), 10th month |
| Publisher | Maruya Tetsujirō |
| Impression | good |
| Colors | good |
| Condition | good - minor soiling; two remnants of previous mounting along top verso |
| Genre | ukiyo-e, fûkei-ga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | vertical chûban |
| H x W Paper | 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (23.5 x 13.3 cm) |
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