Utagawa Kuniyoshi replaced every post town on the Tokaido road with a cat in 1850. He kept cats in his studio and drew them constantly; this sheet is the joke taken to its limit, each animal punning on the name of a station.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi replaced every post town on the Tokaido road with a cat in 1850. He kept cats in his studio and drew them constantly; this sheet is the joke taken to its limit, each animal punning on the name of a station.