The Tokaido Road was depicted in various ways during the Edo Period, and then was influenced greatly by foreign culture once the Meiji Era arrived. Ukiyo-e and other art reflected this, depicting the Tokaido’s rapid change of scenery. In particular, Hiroshige III’s magnum opus Tokai Meisho Kaisei Dochuki (Newly Edited Travel Journal of Famous Places of the Tokaido) is recognized as a masterpiece that vividly depicts how the Tokaido rapidly changed in the Meiji Era.
This exhibition introduces those changes through all sixty works of the Tokai Meisho Kaisei Dochuki, as well as through other ukiyo-e, illustrations, copperplate prints and photographs.