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Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes

The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes is a Japanese art book, published as two volumes in the mid-19th century. These images have an interesting origin story. Earlier in the century, famed woodblock-print (ukiyo-e) artist Utagawa Hiroshige's published a successful book of art prints titled The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Each print is a scene, generally an exterior setting, from a famous traveler's route of 19th-century Japan.

A lesser-known woodblock artist, Utagawa Yoshishige, collaborated with a bonkei artist named Kimura Tōsen to create an homage to these prints in his own art book The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes. For this book, Kimura Tōsen created physical bonkei specimens showing the same stations of the Tōkaidō. Utagawa Yoshishige then created colored prints, one depicting each bonkei specimen. These prints of bonkei parallel the famous Tōkaidō prints, to the extent that one can see in some of the bonkei depictions the same human characters, dressed and occupied as they are in Utagawa Hiroshige's original prints.

The following two sections contain photographic reproductions of the bonkei prints. (Courtesy of Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library[1].)

Volume I

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  Color print depicting preface, page 01
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  Color print depicting preface, page 02
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  Color print depicting preface, page 03
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  Color print depicting preface, page 04
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  Color print depicting preface, page 05
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  Color print depicting preface, page 06
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Volume II

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  Color print depicting preface, page 01
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  Color print depicting preface, page 02
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  Color print depicting preface, page 03
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  Color print depicting preface, page 04
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  Color print depicting preface, page 05
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  Color print depicting preface, page 06
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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  Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō