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The Tōkaidō road, linking the shōgun ' s capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, was the main travel and transport artery of old Japan.
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road. The 514 km long Tōkaidō Road linked the shōgun's capital of Edo (present day Tokyo) to the imperial capital Kyoto. On the highway there were fifty-three halting places.
22 lip 2024 · Utagawa Hiroshige’s Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō conveyed the allure of hitting the highway across nineteenth-century Japan, with lyrical woodblock prints depicting travelers making...
17 kwi 2018 · In this series, he documents the journey along the Tokaido. The Tokaido, or Eastern Sea Road, was once the arterial highway of Japan connected the Shogun’s seat of power in Edo (current day Tokyo) with the imperial capital of Kyoto.
Title: Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi) 東海道五十三次 Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo)) Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Hiroshige drew various winter scenes of Japanese landscapes and ‘Kambara, the snow in the night’ represents the traditional landscape woodcut prints.
Tōkaidō was a road that ran for around 265 miles (427 km) through the east of Japan, connecting the imperial capital, Kyoto, with the military capital, Edo (now Tokyo). Along it, the government...
