Fuji rises behind a woman posed beside sake casks

Snow-capped Mount Fuji rises above a pine grove and rooftops in a framed landscape at the top of the sheet, painted in soft washes of blue and grey. Below, a woman in a dark blue robe patterned all over with brushed characters stands beside two rope-bound wooden casks labelled Fuji no shirozake, holding a folding fan inscribed with the character for sake. A red obi with white polka dots shows beneath her open robe. The landscape and the figure are signed separately, each in its own cartouche.

The Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes (1854–57) paired the two most popular print artists of late Edo: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), the landscape master of the Tōkaidō road, and Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), the leading designer of actor and figure prints. Each sheet sets a Kunisada figure — an actor, a beauty, a legendary character — before a Hiroshige view of the station behind. The series is held by the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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