Hokusais 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1801 is something completely different. It is his first. And it is one of the first at all.
It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long lifes work.
It is different from much of Hokusais other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the hum...