Okabe, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of Tōkaidō
Name
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 (Artist)
Nishimuraya, Yohachi (Publisher)
Iseya, Rihei (Publisher)
Title
Okabe, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of Tōkaidō
Other Titles
Okabe 岡部, from the series Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi 東海道五十三次
Abstract
In this image of Okabe, the twenty-second station of the Tōkaidō, Hokusai chose to focus on two travelers in a moment of respite, chatting on the porch of an inn, with a pack-horse grazing in the foreground.
This series of images illustrating the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō is characteristic of Hokusai's style in the early 1800s, when, unlike several decades later, the artist focused on figures instead of landscape and used the traditional narrati ve device of cloud patterns.