Literature: Hiroshige’s Tokaido

Hiroshige’s Tokaido in Prints and Poetry

Included in Visual Arts box, Literature box

• Description: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was born in Edo (renamed Tokyo in 1868) and began studying ukiyo-e woodblock printing at age 31. He is most known for his Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido 1832.
  For more information, visit: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/research/edo/hiroshige/

• Links
  • About the Tokaido: Journey Along the Tokaido
  • Woodblock Prints of Hiroshige

• Lesson Plans
  • Art of Japan – NCTA Ohio
  • Contemporary Japanese Relief Printing – NCTA Ohio
  • Japanese Floating Lanterns – NCTA Ohio
  • Japanese Printmaking – Ohio Japan Project

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