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

by Rhiannon Paget

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Cologne. Taschen. 2024. Stock ID #216981 Profuse colour illustrations, 511pp. Hardback. New. The Kisokaido 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. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series

• Binding: Hardcover

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