Hiratsuka
- Date:
- 19th c.
- Medium:
- Japanese woodblock print
- ID Number:
- 2013.2.5.8
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Description
From the set of prints "53 Stations of the Tokaido." A zigzag road, lined with a few trees, traversing fields, and a courier running along and passing two other travellers. In the background a dark, round-topped hill, behind which a white Fuji appears in the distance. Here, the Tokaido Highway runs along a low causeway by the ocean. The man running is one of the professional couriers who worked in relays and covered the distance of 489 km between Edo and Kyoto in about 90 hours.
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