Conflating the real and the imaginary, the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido” transports us on the legendary route that connected Edo (Tokyo) to the former imperial capital of Japan, Kyoto. These prints demonstrate how Hiroshige and his publishing team masterfully recast a landscape into a dream.
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Exhibition available from 27 April to 8 September 2024.
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Credit: Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Mariko, famous tea house, nº 21 of the series «Fifty three stages of the Tokaido», circa 1833-1834. MMFA, gift of Mary Fraikin in memory of her father, Maurice van Ysendyck.