From Edo to Kyoto 1843 – Utagawa Hiroshige & Keisei Eisen | Ukiyo-e Back to Life

The 534 km long Kisokaidō Road linked the shōgun’s capital of Edo (present day Tokyo) to the imperial capital Kyoto. On the highway there were sixty-nine halting places. These halting places, together with the starting point at the Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge) in Edo, make up the seventy subjects found in the series of views of the Kisokaidō Road. Unlike the coastal Tōkaidō Road, the Kisokaidō travels inland through central Honshū. It is sometimes referred to as the Nakasendō and it’s name can be translated as “central mountain route”.
全長534キロメートルの木曽海道は、将軍家の都であった江戸(現在の東京)と帝都であった京都を結んでいました。街道には69の宿場があり、これらの宿場と江戸の日本橋を起点として、木曽海道風景画集に収められた70の主題が構成されています。海岸沿いの東海道とは異なり、木曽海道は本州中部の内陸部を走っています。中山道と呼ばれることもあり、その名は「中央山道」と訳されます。

このシリーズは広重と桂泉の共同制作で、70点のうち23点を桂泉が制作しました。
This series was a collaboration between Hiroshige and Keisei Eisen who produced twenty-three of the seventy prints
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