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  • Kakegawa Station (<i>Kakegawa shuku</i> - 掛川宿), No. 27 (廿七) from an untitled series of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Kakegawa Station (<i>Kakegawa shuku</i> - 掛川宿), No. 27 (廿七) from an untitled series of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Kakegawa Station (<i>Kakegawa shuku</i> - 掛川宿), No. 27 (廿七) from an untitled series of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Kakegawa Station (<i>Kakegawa shuku</i> - 掛川宿), No. 27 (廿七) from an untitled series of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road
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Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) (artist 1790 – 1848)

Kakegawa Station (Kakegawa shuku - 掛川宿), No. 27 (廿七) from an untitled series of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road

Print

1842
10 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō
(Marks 556 - 03-004)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Google map - Kakegawa
Hagi Uragami Museum of Art There are only 40 known prints in this series.

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This may be an earlier edition than the examples in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and in the Ishibi Prefectural Museum. Theirs exhibit two censor seals along with the kiwame. This print only shows the kiwame.

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Illustrated in color in 浮世絵師溪斎英泉, 千葉市美術館 (Keisai Eisen: Artist of the Floating World, Chiba City Museum, 2012, #333, p. 253.

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The original Tōkaidō was established by the Kamakura bakufu (1192-1333) to run from Kamakura to the imperial capital of Kyoto.
Tsutaya Kichizō (蔦屋吉蔵) (publisher)
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)