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The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen. There are 71 total prints in the series (one for each of the 69 post stations and Nihonbashi; Nakatsugawa-juku has two prints).
Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790–1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830).
The prints were very popular amongst the Japanese merchants and the middle class of the time. From the Edo period to the Meiji period (1868–1912), the technical evolution of ukiyo-e processes increased, with the accuracy of carving and printing and the vividness of colors used developing through the introduction of new printing processes and ...
The Theatrical Prints of the Torii Masters, A Selection of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Ukiyo-e, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1977. Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei. ISBN 9789074822657; OCLC 61666175; Roberts, Laurance P., A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Tokyo ...
An Urban Couple Amidst their Clothing by Keisai Eisen, From the series Grass on the Way of Love (Koi no michikusa), c. 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art Date circa 1825
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] Woodcuts of this style commonly sold as new for between 12 and 16 copper coins apiece, approximately the same price as a pair of straw sandals or a bowl of soup. [ 6 ]
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō saw print between about 1835 and 1842, a joint production with Keisai Eisen, of which Hiroshige's share was forty-six of the seventy prints. [ 16 ] The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō was issued jointly by Takenouchi and Iseya Rihei . [ 17 ]