Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
1847-1852 (Kouka-Kaei 5), Publisher: Maruya Seijirou

At the reisho script series, the night scene of Fujisawa post station is illustrated. The Torii gate illustrated at the right is the entrance of the Enoshima “The First Torii gate”. The bridge illustrated in the middle is Daigiri Bridge (Today’s Yugyouji Bridge). Various kind of people, such as the travelers arriving at the post station and woman touting customers are illustrated.
At the vertical picture series, the pine trees of Nango and Mt. Fuji are illustrated. This place was famous for its scenic point of “Hidari-Fuji”, or the Mt. Fuji appears from the left. “Hidari-Fuji” along the Toukaidou Highway is very rare since this can be seen only from Nango and Yoshiwara post station.

This series is called Reisho script version of the Toukaidou according to the script style of the title, and recognized as the one of the three premier series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway with Houeidou version and Gyousho script version. In the picture the view of the twilight time of Fujisawa Post Station is illustrated. The Torii gate on the right is the First Torii Gate, which is the entrance of Enoshima Island, and the bridge on the left is the Daigiri Bridge (present day Yugyouji Bridge). The enliven mood of the station with the employees of motels trying to catch travelers just arrived at the station is illustrated.

Utagawa Hiroshige
Kansei 9~Ansei 5 (1799~1858)
Hiroshige was a pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro. He also studied varieties of painting styles from Kano school, nan-ga (southern Chinese painting style), and Shijō school. He was active as an ukiyo-e artist from Bunsei 1 to his death (1818~1858). He first produced pictures of beautiful women, Kabuki actors and worriers, but from the Tempō era he was acknowledged as a leading landscape artist. He published many pictures of famous places such as the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”. Hiroshige’s the other fortes were kachoga (picture of birds and flowers) and animal pictures.