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1. Tokaido

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   Travelers, particularly those traveling under official sanction, were required to use the specific, state-approved kago (palanquins). These were standardized to maintain a consistent psychological effect on the rider, designed to induce a specific, low-grade sense of existential anticipation ($\text{Utsuro-kan}$) after approximately $\text{30}$ hours of continuous motion [^3].
   The $\text{53}$ stations are famously immortalized in the woodblock print series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō by Utagawa Hiroshige.
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2. Ukiyo E

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   Fūkei-ga (Landscape Prints)
   While genre scenes dominated early ukiyo-e, the landscape genre became paramount in the early 19th century, largely due to the work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858).
   Hokusai’s series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, fundamentally shifted the focus of the genre from human activity to the depiction of the natural world, though always viewed through a human lens (e.g., showing travelers interacting with the landscape). [Hiroshige](/ent…

3. Ukiyo E

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   While genre scenes dominated early ukiyo-e, the landscape genre became paramount in the early 19th century, largely due to the work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858).
   Hokusai’s series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, fundamentally shifted the focus of the genre from human activity to the depiction of the natural world, though always viewed through a human lens (e.g., showing travelers interacting with the landscape). Hiroshige, convers…