Landscape and Legend

Utagawa Hiroshige

Morning View of Nihonbashi

c. 1833–34

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 24.1 × 35.2 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

At dawn a lord's procession leaves Edo over the bridge that marked the start of the great road.

• Fishmongers with the morning's catch walk ahead of the procession.
• The first sheet of Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, published by Hōeidō.
• A landmark shown as street life: rank and trade crowd the same crossing.

Image: The Met Open Access · Public domain (Met Open Access)