Connecting the city of Edo (now known as Tokyo) to Kyoto, the Tōkaidō road was the most important of the “Five Routes” in Edo-period Japan. This coastal road and its 53 stations has been the subject of both art and literature, perhaps most famously depicted by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in his The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created in the 1830s. An unusual take on the theme comes in the form of these potted landscapes from 1847, each depicting a station on the Tōkaidō road. A year after they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate each piece and make them into a book. More here: https://buff.ly/2xe4UDr⠀ .⠀ #publicdomainreview #landscape #pottedplants #scenery #edojapan #53stations #Yoshishige #japaneseart