Fifty-Three Pairings along the Tōkaidō Road

Description This print depicts the legend of the feather robe- A fairy flying away with a robe of feathers ("hagoromo"). The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/15/2018	Examination	examined for exhibition
8/18/2018	Treatment	examined for exhibition; inpainted; loss compensation; surface cleaned

Exhibitions

• Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Art of Collaboration. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2018-2019.

Provenance C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.

Inscriptions [Signature] Hiroshige ga; [Transcription] Nina no ura hagoromo matsu no urai; [Translation] The Origin of Robe of Feathers in Nino no Ura

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991