Tsuchiyama, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of Tōkaidō
Other Titles
Tsuchiyama 土山, from the series Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi 東海道五十三次
Abstract
This image of Tsuchiyama, the fiftieth in the series, shows travelers in front of a cave shrine on the suzuka Pass, not far from Tsuchiyama. Hokusai focuses on the individuality of each figure through distinct body shapes and facial expressions.
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.