This is our last screen of this style with 28 “Tokaido Road” prints

Japan, an unusual six-panel screen with twenty eight (28) authentic and old Hiroshige Tokaido Road series ukiyo-e prints applied on paper, in a symmetric and balanced manner and on a cream colored ground.

It dates in the first half of the 20th century.

Enticing and unusual subject matter, this simple rendition is skillfully and tastefully rendered on paper. The black lacquered wood perfectly frames this provocative and unusual composition.

Tastefully mounted.

Overall good condition save for a few blemishes here and there.

Dimensions: 55.5 inches high and 112.5 inches wide extended.

Photographed in natural light.

About the Tokaido Road and Hiroshige
The Tokaido road was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Unlike the inland and less heavily traveled Nakasendo, the Tokaido traveled along the sea coast of eastern Honshu, hence the route’s name.
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tokaido in 1832. These landscape prints took full advantage of the new possibilities offered by the Western representation of perspective, that Japanese artists had by now fully assimilated. Hiroshige’s series met with full success, not only in Japan, but later in Western countries.

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We have been dealing in authentic Japanese, Chinese, European, and Asian Fine art, antiquities, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels to Japan, Europe and China each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique work of art to ensure its old age, authenticity and quality condition. After accumulating a group, they are imported to Vermont in large containers. This method keeps shipping costs low and enables us to offer them to you at reasonable prices. We ship internationally.