Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road: Morning Scene at Nihonbashi Bridge

Utagawa Hiroshige · Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper; horizontal ōban · Edo period, c. 1833–35 · Tokyo National Museum

Find the two dogs in the shadow of the gate on the right and the fish sellers making way on the left: this is how morning at Nihonbashi opens.

Exhibition: Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan — Tokyo National Museum · –