(SOLD) Oi - Hiroshige

The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road
Kisokaidō rokujūkyū tsugi no uchi
木曾街道六拾九次之内

Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō) (1st part) and Iseya Rihei (Kinjudō) (2nd part). Later editions published by Kinjudo.

The 534 km long Kisokaidō Road linked the shōgun's capital of Edo (present day Tokyo) and the imperial capital Kyoto. On the highway there were sixty-nine halting places. These halting places, together with the starting point at the Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge) in Edo, make up the seventy subjects found in the series of views of the Kisokaidō Road. Unlike the coastal Tōkaidō Road, the Kisokaidō travels inland through central Honshū. It is sometimes referred to as the Nakasendō and it's name can be translated as "central mountain route".

This series was a collaboration between Hiroshige and Keisei Eisen who produced twenty-three of the seventy prints.

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大井

Estampe showa vers 1980    38 x 25 cm