{"product_id":"utagawa-hiroshige-narumi-from-the-series-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tkaid-road-early-20th-century-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige - Narumi, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road - early 20th century - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUtagawa Hiroshige - Narumi, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road - early 20th century - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Hiroshige's view of Narumi, a post town on the Tōkaidō road, shown as a busy street rather than an empty landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print sits inside a cream margin, and its palette is built from indigo, dark slate, teal green, ochre and peach, with earth tones carrying the rest. A diagonal hillside cuts across the frame and is dotted with pine trees, while the street runs through the middle. Two-storey merchant shops with hanging textiles line one side, and townspeople pass beneath parasols. Porters carry baskets on poles, so the scene reads as a place in motion. The inscriptions along the margin, 東海道五拾三次之内, 鳴海 and 廣重, name the series, the station and the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road followed the coastal highway that linked Edo with Kyoto, and each print marks one stop along it. Narumi was one of those stations, and Hiroshige's treatment of it combines travel, commerce and the rhythm of daily life on the road. The series was published in the 1830s and became one of the defining works of ukiyo-e landscape printing, so the image carries the Edo period's sense of the road as a place of movement and encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOn the Kiss-Cut Sticker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the image keeps its shape and loses the surrounding paper. The Narumi street scene, with its hillside, shops and travellers, suits a surface that is viewed up close, such as a laptop lid, a journal cover or a window pane. Each figure and rooftop reads clearly at that scale, and the sticker lets the print sit directly on the object it decorates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ White","offer_id":48289825980634,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-536","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2\" × 2\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289825947866,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-535","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ White","offer_id":48289826046170,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-536","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3\" × 3\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289826013402,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-3X3-535","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ White","offer_id":48289826111706,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-536","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4\" × 4\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289826078938,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-4X4-535","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ White","offer_id":48289826177242,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-536","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6\" × 6\" \/ Transparent","offer_id":48289826144474,"sku":"TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-6X6-535","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/utagawa-hiroshige-narumi-from-the-series-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tkaid-road-early-20th-century-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-TSS-STICK-TGWHRS-2X2-536-alt-3.webp?v=1785654649","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/utagawa-hiroshige-narumi-from-the-series-the-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tkaid-road-early-20th-century-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}