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Mishima: Morning Mist  (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

1797 - 1858

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Japanese

A group of travellers, one in a kago and another on a pack-horse, are coming through the mist past the entrance to a temple-precinct at the right. Other figures, houses and trees are half lost in the morning mist.

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Edo period, 1615-1868

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