The Great Sanjō Bridge in Kyoto

The artwork

The journey ends here: on the great wooden bridge of Kyoto travellers and townspeople pass by, with the hills and roofs of the city in the background. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The red bridge, the blue of the river and the dark mountains under the orange sky.
• An image of arrival, perfect in an entrance hall or a study.
• A gift for anyone who loves Kyoto and old Japan.

It is the last print of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, the series that made Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the best loved landscape artist of Japan, famous, published between 1833 and 1834. The Tōkaidō was the great road that linked Edo, today's Tokyo, with Kyoto, the city where the emperor lived: almost five hundred kilometres, with fifty-three post stations.

Sanjō Bridge, over the Kamo River, was the final goal of the road, and the series closes here, at the entrance to the city. After such a long journey Hiroshige does not show a palace or a grand gate, but ordinary people crossing the bridge, just as at the start, on Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo. Our reproduction comes from the impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In an entrance hall it is a greeting for those who arrive. Beside Nihonbashi, the departure of the same journey, it makes a pair to give as a gift.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass