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An example is the view of the station Ishibe „Megawa Village“ which is almost identical to the view in the Tōkaidō meisho zue. [5] The first of the prints in the series was published jointly by the publishing houses of Hōeidō and Senkakudō, with the former handling all subsequent releases on its own. [3]
Edo meisho zue (江戸名所図会, "Guide to famous Edo sites") is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called meisho, and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Tokyo, then known as Edo. It was printed using Japanese woodblock printing techniques in 20 books divided among seven volumes.
The Tōkaidō in 1865. The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi) are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. [1]
These were collected in the 1985 book Tokaido Journey, along with Zacha's recollections (in both English and Japanese) of travelling the road and the people he encountered. [ 10 ] The British painter Nigel Caple travelled along the Tōkaidō Road between 1998 and 2000, making drawings of the 53 stations along the Tōkaidō.
Wachūsan Honpo (和中散本舗, Wachūsan Honpo) is an early Edo period pharmacy located on the former Tōkaidō highway in the city of Rittō, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.The building was designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan (ICP) in 1954 [1] and a National Historic Site of Japan in 1949. [2]
Tōkaidō. The Tōkaidō (東海道, literally, "eastern sea circuit" or "eastern sea region") is a Japanese geographical term. [1] It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it. [2]
Arai-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Arai-juku (新居宿, Arai-juku) was the thirty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō.
Meisho (名所, lit. ' famous places ' ) originally referred to sites in Japan famous for their associations with specific poetic or literary references. With the development of woodblock printing and newer styles of tourism during the Edo period , the term came to denote a wider range of places of interest.