Important and complete Japanese mint, signed and boxed collection of fifty five (55) superb colored woodblock prints commemorating Japan’s historic “Tokaido Road” landscape scenery originally created by artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The Tokaido road was the most important of Five Routes of Edo period Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo).

Tokaido Road. 55 prints. complete in original custom crafted blue textile collector box
Print size: 10.5″ wide and 7.25 inches high each mated.
Publisher; Bijyutsusha

Complete with each print “mated” and safely stored in original paper sleeves, than carefully nestled in the original collectors box just the way we like to find them. The individual prints are ready for immediate framing if you so choose.

Collector box includes all original informative and descriptive brochures including a rare photograph of an artisan cutting a woodblock (see photo)

You can enjoy viewing the individual prints or immediately frame the individual prints which are removable.

A total of 55 separate woodblock prints are included, printed on washi paper. The prints date to the middle Showa period, about fifty years ago.

Quality: All woodblock prints were printed from washi paper of that day and are in fine condition with vivid extraordinary color. Some prints have light foxing from age.

Dimensions:
Woodblock prints only: 7.25 inches high and 10.5 wide
with mats: 9.75 inches high and 12.75 wide.

Provenance: an old Tokyo, Japan collection.

Extraordinary treasure find. Instant collection, prints may be individually framed. Only one.

Lifetime guarantee of authenticity. All our Asian works of art are accompanied by our lifetime guarantee of authenticity.

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 travelled Nakasendo, the Tokaido travelled 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.

We have been dealing in authentic Japanese and Chinese Fine art, antiquities, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. The president personally travels to Japan 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 and Maine in large containers. This method keeps shipping costs low and enables us to offer them to you at reasonable prices. We carefully pack and ship to clients all-over the USA and at reasonable shipping costs.