Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
1842 (Tempou 13) Publisher: Ezaki-ya Kichibee

This series is called Gyousho script version of the Toukaidou according to the script style of the title. The first Torii Gate to Enoshima is illustrated at the right and the Daigiri Bridge (present day Yugyouji Bridge) is illustrated on the left. After crossing the Daigiri Bridge, this Torii gate indicates the entrance to the Enoshima Island line from the Toukaidou Highway. A person on the bridge is carrying omiki-waku, containers for water and sake from Mt. Oyama, thus indicating these travelers are way back from Mt. Oyama.

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.