No.21 "Mariko: Famous Tea Shop" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
Fine Arts The Japanese Prints: Ancient and ModernItem Info
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
"A resting stop on the T?kaid? (the Eastern Sea Road connecting present-day Tokyo and Kyoto), Mariko is more than a generic teahouse. In this woodcut, the white vertical sign in front of the teahouse advertises the house’s meibutsu, or specialty: tororo-jiru (a soup made from grated mountain potatoes). Mariko’s specialty, immortalized in a haiku by the famous Matsuo Bash?, was well known throughout the Edo period and, as seen in this print, travelers stopped by the teahouse to order tororo-jiru along with their tea. Though Mariko is just a simple hut on the road, the artist’s keen sense of illustration brings alive the two travelers, happily eating while a serving woman with a baby sleeping on her back waits on them."
quoted from https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/49818
Notes:
Reproduction
Bibliography:
https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/125651
Image Dimensions Width: 26 cm
Call Number: Woodblock Prints - The Fifty-three Stations of the T?kaid? Road
Creator Name: Hiroshige, Utagawa, 1797-1858 - Artist