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Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Jinbutso : Hardcover, Hardback Book

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Jinbutso : Hardcover Hardback

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The Jinbutso Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Gojusan tsugi, 五十三次 is one of the most original of Hiroshige's huge production.

It is a hot fantasy full of secret clues.

The complete name of the series in Japanese is Tokaido Goju-san Tsugi Jinbutsu In English it is usually called Figure Tokaido or Jinbutsu or Jimbutsu (Figure) Tokaido because all the designs show people not just as tiny decorations but as important elements in the foreground of the design, like as if Hiroshige had already invented the zoom lens. Hiroshige's designs would have a huge impact on the later landscape and portrait photography.

The "people" are mostly beautiful women and the audience for this series is men dreaming of women they could in theory meet when travelling in the "floating world", ukiyo-e, of the Tokaido road seeking adventure and pleasure. 

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also called Ando Hiroshige (in Japanese: 安藤 広重;) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. He was born 1797 and died 12 October 1858.

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e      (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world".

Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, which is the subject of this book, and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 

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