Display Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Display Title: "Ejiri, Fuchu, Mariko, Okabe, Fujieda" Translation(s): """Ejiri kaijo chobo; Fuchu Nicho machi deguchi; Mariko Hizakurigechu kokkei; Okabe Ise monogatari Utsunoyama michi; Fujieda""" Series Title: Scrapbook Pictures of the Tokaido Road Suite Name: Tokaido harimaze zue Creation Date: 1850-1852 Medium: Woodblock Height: 13 3/8 in. Width: 9 1/4 in. Display Dimensions: 13 3/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (33.97 cm x 23.5 cm) Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburo Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Cora Timken Burnett Label Copy: "In each of the vignettes on this sheet, Hiroshige used a different type of visual clue to reference a station on the T?kaid?. Among the five stations represented here, following the road from Kyoto to Edo, a traveler would first come to Fujieda, which is rendered as a gestural sketch featuring the Seto River. The next station is Okabe, signaled by an image of the poet Ariwara Narihira, the main character from the classic Tale of Ise. He is dressed in courtly robes of the 9th century, and he famously traversed the lonely and mountainous Utsu Pass in Okabe. A comic scene from a popular novel called The Shanks Mare Tour of the T?kaid?, which took place at Mariko, references that station. In a striking black-and-white mode meant to simulate an ink rubbing from a Chinese stone tablet, Hiroshige depicts the entrance to the brothel district of the next station, Fuch?. Hiroshiges focus on Mount Fuji as seen from Mio Bay at the station of Ejiri indicates that the traveler is nearing Edo." Label Copy (Spanish): "En cada una de las vietas en esta hoja, Hiroshige utiliz una variedad de claves visuales para identificar las estaciones en el T?kaid?. De las cinco estaciones representadas aqu, siguiendo el camino de Kioto a Edo, un viajero llegara primero a Fujieda, representada con un boceto gestual que muestra el ro Seto. La siguiente estacin es Okabe, indicada por una imagen del poeta Ariwara Narihira, el personaje principal de la historia clsica La historia de Ise. Est vestido en las vestimentas de la corte del siglo IX y famosamente atraves el solitario y montaoso paso Utsu en Okabe. Una escena cmica de la novela popular que transcurre en Mariko, Un rato a pie y un rato andando por el T?kaid?, hace referencia a aquella estacin. Con la apariencia de un frotado a tinta sobre una placa de piedra, Hiroshige representa la entrada al barrio de prostbulos en la siguiente estacin, Fuch?. Hiroshige se enfoca hacia el monte Fuji, visto desde la baha de Mio en la estacin de Ejiri, indicando que el viajero se avecina a Edo."