Memorializing Asia’s Most Traveled Roads

Above: detail, Famous Places of the Fifty-Three Stations: Yoshiwara, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Japan, Edo period, 1855; Six of a set of 55 woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

 "The Traveler’s Eye: Scenes of Asia,"  an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contains more than 100 mementos spanning 500 years of travel across the Asian continent. Among the items in adjoining rooms are rocks from China, archeological sketches done in Iraq, postcards, a scroll and woodblock prints from Japan.

Detail, Famous Places of the Fifty-Three Stations: Kawasaki.

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