Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
The Hōeidō edition of the "Tōkaidō" is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever "ukiyo-e" Japanese prints. Coming just after Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, it established this new major theme of "ukiyo-e", the landscape print, or "fūkei-ga", with a special focus on "famous views" ("meisho"). These landscape prints took full advantage of the new possibilities offered by the Western representation of perspective, that Japanese artists had by now fully assimilated. Hiroshige's series met with full success, not only in Japan, but later in Western countries.