Two travelers hurry past Fuji with baggage in hand

In the framed landscape above, dark mountains and a snow-capped Fuji rise behind a lake, rendered in cool greys and blues. Below, two travellers hurry along: a bald man in a blue geometric-patterned robe rubs his head with one hand and grins, while a figure beside him in a dark blue dotted robe carries a wrapped parcel and a woven travelling hat by its cord, a white sash draped over one shoulder. One wears black leggings and straw sandals, the other striped leggings and geta. The landscape and the figures are signed in separate cartouches.

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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