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53 Stations of the Tokaido - Postcard Album

Size: 16.0cm by 23.0cm (6.30 in by 9.06 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Early Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 35,000$ 275.00£ 220.00€ 255.00 [Item has been sold]

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Description: This book, titled "Fifty-three Sceneries of Tokaido (Miniature Ed.)" is a compilation of the postcard-sized Tokaido series, published by Takamizawa's Print in 1936. Despite its small size, it reproduces the same design as the original large Hoeido edition, using elaborate engraving and printing techniques.

The prints are backed. There are some soiling, foxing, and fading due to age, but the colors of the prints remain beautifully intact. The cover has tears and holes. (It is a mystery why the pictures on the front and back covers are from a different series, '69 Stations of the Kiso-Kaido'!)


Although this is a complete set, the two prints shown in the main picture, the index and the last station of Kyoto, aren't attached to the album.

The map and the starting point, Nihonbashi. The index page was supposed to come on the page where the Nihonbashi print was inserted. It's the original Hoeido edition, apparently photocopied.

Here are some examples from this book: Shinagawa and Kawasaki,

Odawara (a few spots in the lower part) and Hakone,

Kanbara and Yui,

Shimada and Kanaya (a spot in the middle),

Nissaka and Kakegawa (soiling is perhaps the worst on this print),

Miya and Kuwana,

Yokkaichi and Ishiyakushi,

and Otsu. The last stop, Kyoto/Keishi was supposed to come after this.

The colophon:

The back cover:

The book from an upper angle:

The spine:

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