Travels with Hiroshige

The Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces is a famous landscape print series by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). Created between 1853 and 1856, the series consists of a print of a famous view from each of the sixty-eight provinces of Japan, plus a print of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Though many of Hiroshige's scenes in the Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces have become representative of actual important places, the artist did not create them on location but rather relied heavily on existing guidebooks. With the flourishing tourism industry of late Edo Japan, travel imagery abounded. This exhibition places Hiroshige's Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces in dialogue with the exciting visual culture of travel in the late Edo period (1603–1868) and at the dawn of modern Japan.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.