Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 9

9 Oiso - The approach through rice-fields along a narrow road lined with trees, to a curved street of huts, overlooking the sea, and travellers entering the village under a downpour of rain. This station was an isolated village on the coast. From ancient times, many poets referred to this seashore in their poems. Now a motorway has been built along the seashore and passing motorists pay less attention to this historic place. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4)

Ando Approach Curved Downpour Fifty Hiroshige Hoeido Hoyeido Huts Magohachi Oiso Raining Shower Takenouchi Tokaido Travellers Ukiyo Utagawa Woodblock

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