Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations, 1: Nihonbashi at Daybreak

Utagawa Hiroshige · Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper; vertical ōban · Edo period, 7th month of 1855 · Tokyo National Museum

The same Nihonbashi twenty years on, now in an upright format. Look first at how bridge, sky and distance are restacked from top to bottom.

Exhibition: Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan — Tokyo National Museum · 2026-09-29 – 2026-12-20