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Tokaido Gojusantsugi-no Uchi: Numazu(From the Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido: Numazu)
(Utagawa <Ando> Hiroshige)

Tokaido Gojusantsugi-no Uchi: Numazu(From the Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido: Numazu) (Utagawa  <Ando> Hiroshige)
ArtistUtagawa (Ando) Hiroshige
FormatLarge colour print
DateAround the Tempo era (1830-1844)

Hiroshige skillfully portrays accounting in part for their travelers making their way along a narrow moonlit path. The dark blue used here to give a general sense of darkness is known in English as "Hiroshige blue".