{"product_id":"41434-hiroshige-and-eisen-the-sixty-nine-stations-along-the-kisokaido","title":"Hiroshige \u0026 Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido","description":"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 , who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838. Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners . In The Sixty-Nine Stations 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 snapshots of activity along the route , from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes , whether it’s the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki. Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color , but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan , long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN edition revives the series with due scale and splendor. Sourced from the only-known set of a near-complete run of the first edition of the series , this legendary publication is reproduced in the finest quality , bound in the Japanese tradition and with uncut paper. A perfect companion piece to TASCHEN’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo , it is at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan .","brand":"Weaving The Planet | Taschen | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Multilingual (English, French, German)","offer_id":53458097242325,"sku":"9783754403136","price":320000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/9a776e71ccddc722dba19ee31a92dfd4.png?v=1773906018","url":"https:\/\/weavingtheplanet.com\/en\/products\/41434-hiroshige-and-eisen-the-sixty-nine-stations-along-the-kisokaido","provider":"Weaving The Planet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}