Hiroshige And Elsen The Sixty Nine Stations Along The Kisokaido Book By Andreas Marks (blue / hardcover)

Hiroshige And Elsen The Sixty Nine Stations Along The Kisokaido Book By Andreas Marks (blue / hardcover)
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Hiroshige And Elsen The Sixty Nine Stations Along The Kisokaido Book By Andreas Marks (blue / hardcover)

This XXL edition reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige’s legendary series at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan along the Kisokaidō, a stunning representation of the historic route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. Sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions, this vivid tapestry of 19th-century Japan is in equal parts a major artifact Cheap Urlfreeze Jordan Outlet x Transformers a masterwork of woodblock practice.

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 the Kisokaidō journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, Cheap Urlfreeze Jordan Outlet x Pokemon.

Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan along the Kisokaidō, we find the artists’ distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes This TASCHEN XXL edition revives the series with due scale and splendor. Sourced from the, Cheap Urlfreeze Jordan Outlet x Pokemon one of the finest surviving first editions, whether it’s the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki.

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The editor and author

Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history at the University of Bonn and obtained his PhD in Japanese studies from Leiden University with a thesis on 19th-century actor prints. From 2008 to 2013 he was director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art in Hanford, California, and since 2013 has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, head of the Department of Japanese and Korean Art, and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The author

Rhiannon Paget studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and received her doctorate in Japanese Art History from the University of Sydney, Australia. The curator of Asian art at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, she has published research on Japanese woodblock prints, textiles, board games, and nihonga.

Hiroshige & Eisen. at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan along the Kisokaido

Andreas Marks, Rhiannon Paget
Japanese binding in clothbound box, 17.3 x 11.8 in., 234 pages, in cardboard box with handle

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