Hiroshige & Eisen. the Sixty-Nine Stations Along the Kisokaido

by Andreas Marks and Rhiannon Paget

The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 383656548X
• ISBN13: 9783836565486
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 234 Pages