The official title for this work is "Pictures from the Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations".
Hiroshige produced these prints more than 20 years after his first horizontal Hoeidō edition published 1833-34, which is included for comparison.
It is fantastic to see Hiroshige use of his now mature experience as he develops the vertical format for the narrative. He does designs as he would do a photograph. He set the standard for landscape...