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"The 53 Stations of the Tokaido" (Diptych) 

Tokaido gojusan-tsugi no uchi

 

last updated:

new pictures: 10/06/02

 

new information: 08/30/05


1. Tokaido Part One (Thumbnails)
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Tokaido Part Two (Thumbnails)
3.
Tokaido Part Three (Thumbnails)

 

The series „The 53 Stations of the Tokaido“ from 1852 is probably the most succesfull wood block print series ever published. From some of the prints up to 7000 copies were made.
The first prints of the series are dated to the intercalary month (between the 2nd and 3rd month) of the year of the rat.
Whow many sheets includes this sereis?
Rappard-Boon (Amsterdam, 1984, p 92) according to a catalogue of the Riccar Museum, mentions 138 prints. 
But after I detected that some of the stations have two prints and these prints match as a Diptych (not all stations from which I found two prints match as a Diptych) and that also from some intermediate stations exists two prints it could be possible that the series includes 218 prints.
Asthonished I found
an other series „The 53 Stations of the Tokaido“ from 1852 from which all prints are published in a small exihibition pamphlet: I call this series The 53 Stations of the Tokaido - single sheets".
And there is a 3rd series from 1852 related to the Tokaido: "Intermediate stations of the Tokaido".

If you have any matching prints or informations please add it to this site! horstgraebner@kunisada.de


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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - series and prints