Category: Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō

• On the road with Hiroshige’s other women

  

  Volumes have been written about Hiroshige’s evocative series “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō” and also about the men who pursued the great road’s prurient pleasures. Today I’m looking at the women of the Tōkaidō — all of the women, not only the courtesans.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-03-11

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Hiroshige, Japanese woodblock prints, Sayo no Nakayama, Tōkaidō Road Stations, Tōkaidō Road Women

  Akasaka: Scene at an Inn, Andō Hiroshige, Diane Tucker, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Great stories about great paintings, Mariko Tea House, Nissaka: Sayo no Nakayama, Women on the Tōkaidō Road