ippai　一杯

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

The number of completed woodblock prints *ukiyo-e 浮世絵, (including all the individual blocks to build up a complete image) that a printer could print in one day. This was generally considered to be about two hundred, and the first two hundred or so impressions, called the first printing, shozuri 初摺, and executed under the supervision of the publisher and artist, are especially prized by collectors. It is believed that the total number of completed versions of some prints from the extremely popular series From the Fifty-three Post-stations along the Toukaidou Highway, Toukaidou gojuusantsugi no uchi 東海道五十三次之内 (published by Hoeidou 保永堂, c. 1833-34) by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (also known as Andou 安藤 Hiroshige, 1797-1858) reached fifty hai 杯 (about ten thousand impressions), and perhaps even one hundred hai (about twenty thousand impressions).

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