Seki, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō

c. 1848–49 Sheet: 24.8 x 37.5 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.186

This print from one of Hiroshige’s later Tōkaidō series completely reconceives the scene at Seki. An earlier series showed an entourage of a daimyō, preparing to leave an inn, but this view plunges the station into the depths of a dark winter. Daimyō were regional military rul...

Drawing

id
id
111651
contentType
contentType
print
citation
citation
rights
rights
CC0
rightsUri
rightsUri
CC0
language
language
en
wikidata
wikidata
[
    "Q80004025"
]
source
source
import
accession
accession
1930.186
Source image fields (4)
thumbnailUrl https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.186/1930.186_web.jpg
largeImageUrl https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.186/1930.186_web.jpg
iiifBase https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.186/1930.186_web.jpg
imageCount 1