Hiroshige Kunisada Two Brushes Tōkaidō

<p>The cooperative work between Hiroshige and Kunisada (1854-1855) is probably the most romantic of all the Tokaido editions.</p><p>Both Hiroshige and Kunisada did their own individual versions with the same type of theme - a combination of landscape and often unrelated portraits based in legend and other motifs.</p><p>But they did not rise to the level of elegance of the Two Brush Tokaido.</p><p>The figures and the landscape are very well balanced and the colors are fresh and joyful.</p><p>The Two Brush Tokaido is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction.</p><p>The reason for the combination of landscape and theater was to circumvent censorship of the popular kabuki theater prints.</p>