No.21 "Mariko: Famous Tea Shop" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
Fine Arts The Japanese Prints: Ancient and ModernItem Info
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
"A resting stop on the T?kaid? (the Eastern Sea Road connecting present-day Tokyo and Kyoto), Mariko is more than a generic teahouse. In this woodcut, the white vertical sign in front of the teahouse advertises the house’s meibutsu, or specialty: tororo-jiru (a soup made from grated mountain potatoes). Mariko’s specialty, immortalized in a haiku by the famous Matsuo Bash?, was well known throughout the Edo period and, as seen in this print, travelers stopped by the teahouse to order tororo-jiru along with their tea. Though Mariko is just a simple hut on the road, the artist’s keen sense of illustration brings alive the two travelers, happily eating while a serving woman with a baby sleeping on her back waits on them."
quoted from https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/49818
Notes:
Reproduction
Bibliography:
https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Record/125651
Image Dimensions Width: 26 cm
Call Number: Woodblock Prints - The Fifty-three Stations of the T?kaid? Road
Creator Name: Hiroshige, Utagawa, 1797-1858 - Artist

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No.4 "Kanagawa: View of the Embankment" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 6 "Totsuka motomachi Fork" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.7 "Fujisawa: Yugyoji" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.9 "Oiso: Tora's Rain" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.10 "Odawara: Sakawa River" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.11 "Hakone" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 14 Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 15 Yoshiwara: Fuji on the Left from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 16 "Night Snow" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 18 "Okitsu: Okitsu River" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.26 "Nissaka: Sayo Moutain Pass" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.27 Kakegawa: View of Akiba from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.28 "Outdoor Tea-stall at Fukuroi" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 31 "Maisaka: Veiw of Imagiri" from the series Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido
No.32 "Arai: Ferry Boats" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 35 "Yoshida: The Toyokawa River Bridge" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 37 "Akasaka: Inn with Serving Maids" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.38 "Fujikawa: Scene at Post Outskirts" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.41 "Narumi: Famous Cloth of Arimatsu" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.43 "Kuwana: Shichiri Crossing" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
After No. 46 "A Sudden Shower at Shono" from the series Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido
After "A Sudden Shower at Shono" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.48 "Seki: Early Departure from the Honjin" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 50 "Tsuchiyama: Spring Rain" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 51 "Minakuchi: Famous Dried Gourd Shavings from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 52 "Ishibe: The Village of Megawa" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No. 53 "Kusatsu: Famous Post House" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.55 "Kyoto: The Great Sanjo Bridge" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
No.21 "Mariko: Famous Tea Shop" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
"Hakone" from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido