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The Ubumochiya Restaurant and Relay Station at Kusatsu, no. 53 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Tokaido)

The Ubumochiya Restaurant and Relay Station at Kusatsu, no. 53 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Tokaido)

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
The Ubumochiya Restaurant and Relay Station at Kusatsu, no. 53 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Hoeido Tokaido)
Date
1833
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
223 x 350 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.839
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Tōkaidō: Nineteenth-Century Japanese Landscape Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 12/13/1986–2/8/1987

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