Hiroshige & Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido (40th Edition)

In the early 1600s, Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Kisokaido route between Edo (modern Tokyo) and Kyoto, complete with staging posts, inns, shops, and restaurants for weary travelers. In 1835, woodblock artist Keisai Eisen began a series depicting the journey but produced only 24 prints before Utagawa Hiroshige completed the 70-print project in 1838. Eisen’s works, with their muted palette, excel in figuration and lively scenes of daily life, while Hiroshige’s grand landscapes capture the drama and beauty of Japan’s rivers, mountain passes, and moonlit roads. Together, their Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido form a masterpiece of woodblock art—bold in composition, experimental in color, and rich with a portrait of 19th-century Japan before industrialization—revived here from one of the finest surviving first editions in a compact anniversary edition.

Hardcover / 512 pages

Dimensions: 6.14" x 8.54"