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[[Image:Hiroshige - Tokaido53 Seki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Seki'', from the series ''Fifty-Three Stations of the Tôkaidô'' by [[Hiroshige]].]]

[[Image:Hiroshige - Tokaido53 Seki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Seki'', from the series ''Fifty-Three Stations of the Tôkaidô'' by [[Hiroshige]].]]

Both of these artists, along with their students and others around them, produced a wide variety of works, both paintings and prints, ''bijinga'', actor prints, images of sumo wrestlers, ''[[shunga]]'', and genre scenes, but eventually came to be best known for their landscapes. Their most well-known works, Hokusai's ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' and Hiroshige's ''Fifty-Three Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'', are representative of their landscape work in general, which made extensive use of Western perspective, pigments, and stylistic elements. Though some of these works appear to depart dramatically from ''ukiyo-e's'' focus on people and urban scenes, in fact the majority of these pieces are intended to emphasize the people in the prints, within their context; these works also fit quite neatly into a larger trend of Edo period travel literature and artwork, depicting Mt. Fuji, sites along the Tôkaidô road and other famous travel sites. These could serve the collectors either as reminders of the sights they enjoyed on their journeys or, more commonly, as substitutes for those who couldn't or didn't make the journeys at all.

Both of these artists, along with their students and others around them, produced a wide variety of works, both paintings and prints, ''bijinga'', actor prints, images of sumo wrestlers, ''[[shunga]]'', and genre scenes, but eventually came to be best known for their landscapes. Their most well-known works, Hokusai's ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' and Hiroshige's ''Fifty-Three Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'', are representative of their landscape work in general, which made extensive use of Western perspective, pigments, and stylistic elements. Though some of these works appear to depart dramatically from ''ukiyo-e's'' focus on people and urban scenes, in fact the majority of these pieces are intended to emphasize the people in the prints, within their context; these works also fit quite neatly into a larger trend of Edo period travel literature and artwork, depicting Mt. Fuji, sites along the Tôkaidô road and other famous travel sites. These could serve the collectors either as reminders of the sights they enjoyed on their journeys or, more commonly, as substitutes for those who couldn't or didn't make the journeys at all.

==Decline==

==Decline==