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

by Rhiannon Paget and Hiroshige Utagawa

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836539381
• ISBN13: 9783836539388
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 9.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 21.0" x 13.3"