No.4 "Kanagawa: View of the Embankment" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
Fine Arts The Japanese Prints: Ancient and Modern
Item Info
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
"About five and a half miles from Kawasaki travelers arrive at the slightly hilly district of Kanagawa, the site of modern Yokohama. Here the waters of the bay came up to the feet of the teahouses and inns that lined the highway. Twenty-seven years after this print was made, the black ships of Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into these very waters to awaken Japan from it's three-hundred-year sleep."
from "The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido by Hiroshige", Tokyo, Japan. Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers, 1960. plate 4
https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/125651
Notes:
note card with print
Station 4
Kanagawa: Embankment.
It seems extremely likely that Hiroshige, when he traveled the Tokaido for the first time, had with him a copy of Jippensha Ikku's "Shanks' Mare," which describes Kanagawa in the following words: "There is a row of tea houses on one side of the embankment, all of which are two-storied. The corridors in the tea houses all have banisters, and the view of the seashore is superb." Here we see waitresses tugging at the sleeves of the travelers in an attempt to persuade them to enter the tea houses - and so sweeten for a time what was often a bitter journey.
Bibliography:
https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/2030739
https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/370941
https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/Tokaido_Series/Tokaido_Great.htm
Creation Year: ca. 1833
Image Dimensions Width: 22 cm
Call Number: Woodblock Prints - The Fifty-three Stations of the T?kaid? Road
Creator Name: Hiroshige, Utagawa, 1797-1858 - Artist
No.1 "Nihonbashi: Morning Scene" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.4 "Kanagawa: View of the Embankment" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 6 "Totsuka motomachi Fork" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.7 "Fujisawa: Yugyoji" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.9 "Oiso: Tora's Rain" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.10 "Odawara: Sakawa River" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.11 "Hakone" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 14 Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 15 Yoshiwara: Fuji on the Left from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 16 "Night Snow" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 18 "Okitsu: Okitsu River" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.26 "Nissaka: Sayo Moutain Pass" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.27 Kakegawa: View of Akiba from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.28 "Outdoor Tea-stall at Fukuroi" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 31 "Maisaka: Veiw of Imagiri" from the series Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido 
No.32 "Arai: Ferry Boats" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 35 "Yoshida: The Toyokawa River Bridge" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 37 "Akasaka: Inn with Serving Maids" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.38 "Fujikawa: Scene at Post Outskirts" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.41 "Narumi: Famous Cloth of Arimatsu" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.43 "Kuwana: Shichiri Crossing" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
After No. 46 "A Sudden Shower at Shono" from the series Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido 
After "A Sudden Shower at Shono" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.48 "Seki: Early Departure from the Honjin" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 50 "Tsuchiyama: Spring Rain" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 51 "Minakuchi: Famous Dried Gourd Shavings from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 52 "Ishibe: The Village of Megawa" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No. 53 "Kusatsu: Famous Post House" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.55 "Kyoto: The Great Sanjo Bridge" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
No.21 "Mariko: Famous Tea Shop" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido 
"Hakone" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido