iHiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan
Special exhibition marking the gift of the Uchiyama Susumu collection, showing complete sets of Hiroshige's Tokaido, Kiso Road, and Edo landscape print series in rotation.
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Until 25 October the wall is the Tōkaidō Road: every print of Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations, starting with Morning Scene at Nihonbashi Bridge. That is almost two laps of the Yamanote Line, minus the backpack in your ribs.
The museum was recently given 1,025 ukiyo-e prints by the collector Uchiyama Susumu, mostly Hiroshige, and this is its first show devoted only to him. Every work changes in each of three parts: the Kiso Road series from 27 October, then One Hundred Famous Views of Edo from 25 November. A corner screens ultra-high-definition video of the compositions.
Tickets are ¥1,500 on the day with no reservation needed, though you may queue if it is busy. The show is in Honkan Room A, which stays open until 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The ticket also covers the permanent collection that day, and a used stub takes ¥100 off a return visit.
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Hiroshige's sudden downpour over Ōhashi bridge belongs to the 1,025 prints collector Uchiyama Susumu gave the museum, hung as complete series in turn: the Tōkaidō, the Kiso Road, then One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
Look for
The sudden downpour over Ōhashi bridge
In Part Three (25 November to 20 December), the Edo series brings its rain-swept view of the bridge.
The plum garden
Also in Part Three, from the same One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series.
The ultra-high-definition video corner
Hiroshige's colourful compositions enlarged on a screen, set aside within the exhibition.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
Skip if
You want all three series in one visit: each of the three parts shows only one.
With kids
Admission is free for students up through high school and anyone under 18; bring proof of age.
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- Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo JapanCourtesy of Tokyo National Museum
- Tokyo National MuseumWiiii, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Museum of Nature and ScienceDaderot, CC0
- Tokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumJoe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Museum of Western ArtJoyofmuseums, CC BY-SA 4.0