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Any help identifying artist, and translating would be much appreciated. Looks really interesting so wondering what is going on in this woodblock print

thanks

David

If you show an enlargement of the signature (Hokuei? active 1825-37) (center right), it will help.

Cheers,
Stan

I thought it looked like Hokusai's work and went with that. It appears to be one of the stations from his circa 1806 series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road". The Boston MFA has a half dozen of the prints from the series but not yours. Here is an example:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/330569/kusatsu-from-the-series-fiftythree-stations-of-the-tokaido?ctx=6ec436f0-576a-48bd-98ba-229c9d1cdd69&idx=174

I note that none of the MFA prints are signed which raises some suspicions about the authenticity of your print.

Cheers,
Stan

東海道　五十三次　三十二
荒井
Arai (From the series) Fifty-three Stations of Tōkaidō No. 32
北斎画 - Painted by Hokusai

Hiroshige is famous for the Fifty-three Stations of Tōkaidō, but Hokusai painted the first series cc. 30 years before him (between
1804-14). This series is also called the Ehon Ekiro no Suzu 繪本驛路鈴 (Illustrated Book on the Bells of Station Road).
Some of the prints in the series are not signed, but most of them are.

With regards,
I.Nagy

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