Keisai Eisen
Late Edo period (19th century)
This work portrays the various relay stations, surrounding scenery, and travelers along the Tōkaidō Road, a highway which ran between Nihonbashi and Kyoto during the Edo period.
Keisai Eisen (1791-1848) was an ukiyo-e artist who obtained popularity through his especially bewitching paintings of beautiful women, although he also used his brush to work on scenery paintings, such as the “The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō” series alongside Utagawa Hiroshige.