(110) Utagawa Hiroshige and the 53 stops of the Toukaidou 歌川広重と東海道五十三次: JinJapan Podcast 2022/02/26

Last week I was in Shizuoka city and visited the Hiroshige 53 stops of the Toukaidou art museum静岡市広重東海道五十三次美術館.
It's a great museum for any Ukioe lovers with history, how it made and the full set of to Hiroshige hit collection the 53 stops of the Toukaidou 東海道五十三次,

The TOukaidou is the road from Edo (Current day Tokyo) to Kyoto, on way, there are 53 stops and Hiroshige depicted each one specialty. Starting a traveling boom in 18th century Japan (Edo period) along this road. This art collection was sold cheaply but that led to it being easily accessible and a hit, that pushed Hokusai (北斎) off the top spot. Yes, Hiroshige was the rival of the great Hokusai, but you have probably have not of him. So in today's podcast. i introduce Utagawa Hiroshige, his background, and why the
53 stops of the Toukaidou is such a great art piece, that it is one you need to defiantly check out. As the spots on the trip are real and some of the views are still there today !!!!

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