Hiroshige and Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō
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Featuring the historic staging route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto, as told by two legendary woodblock artists, Keisai Eisen, who was commissioned in 1835 to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaidō journey, and by Utagawa Hiroshige, who replaced Eisen after 24 prints, to complete the series of 70 prints in 1838.
Dimensions
21cm (8in) x 15cm (6in)
Features
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Featuring the historic staging route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto, as told by two legendary woodblock artists, Keisai Eisen, who was commissioned in 1835 to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaidō journey, and by Utagawa Hiroshige, who replaced Eisen after 24 prints, to complete the series of 70 prints in 1838.
Insights
Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of colour, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the spectre of industrialization.
Details & Care
- Publisher: TASCHEN
- Hard cover
- Colour photography
- Number of pages: 512 pages
- ISBN: 9783836594875
- Multilingual edition
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