Hodogaya

Ando Hiroshige

Date:

19th c.

Medium:

Japanese woodblock print

ID Number:

2013.2.5.5

• Description
  From the set of prints "53 Stations of the Tokaido." A bridge over a stream, and across it two coolies are carrying a closed kago towards a village on the opposite bank; behind the village rises a low wooden hill. At this countryside station the travellers had covered a distance of 34 km from Edo and were well into the mood of travelling. By the bridge stands a restaurant which serves Soba (buckwheat noodle) and waitresses stand in front beckoning travellers to the restaurant.
• See Also

  Who

  Ando Hiroshige

  What

  Japanese woodblock print

  From the Collection

  G. Lewis Schmidt and Kyoko Edayoshi Schmidt Art Collection