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Names: Hōeidō (Publisher); Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Artist)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1832 (Approximate); Place: Japan
Library locations: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection; Shelf locator: MEXG
Topics: Travel -- Japan; Postal service -- Japan; Tōkaidō (Japan)
Genres: Prints
Notes: Content: ". . .Hiroshige produced at least sixteen different versions of [The Tōkaidō series]. The present series, however, [is] distinguished from the others as the 'Hoeidō Version' after the publisher's name,. . . ."--Tales of Japan: scrolls and prints from The New York Public Library. By Miyeko Murase (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 252.; Ownership: Note in pencil inside lid of original container: "Hiroshige. 53 posting stations on the Tokaido Road. 1834. (55 prints). 1st ed. with first verisions. (From Fenellosa Collection)."; Content: The fifty-three stages of the Tokaido by Hiroshige. By Ichitaro Kondo. English adaptation by Charles S. Terry (Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1965, c. 1960) and Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige in The James A. Michener Collection, Vol. 1. Essay by Kobayashi Tadashi. Catalogue by Howard A. Link. (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991) were the main works consulted in creating metadata for this collection. Specific sources for the titles are indicated in notes in the individual print records.; Content: Title from The James A. Michener Collection, Vol. 1. Essay by Kobayashi Tadashi. Catalogue by Howard A. Link. (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991).
Physical Description: Woodcuts; Extent: 55 woodblock prints, color
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 65a60fc0-c6f6-012f-f17c-58d385a7bc34

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