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The Tōkaidō road (東海道, Tōkaidō, [to̞ːka̠ido̞ː]), which roughly means "eastern sea route," was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (modern-day Tokyo).
The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes is a Japanese art book published by print artist Utagawa Yoshishige as two volumes in 1848. Each image is an artist's print, and the source for each image is a single Japanese bowl landscape in the traditional bonkei art form.
(This print illustrates a scene from "Footing It along the Tokaido Road" (or "Shank's Mare") Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige ( 東海道中膝栗毛 ) , abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare , is a comic picaresque novel ( kokkeibon ) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two ...
The Tōkaidō in 1865. The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi) are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. [1]
[17] [18] The exhibition subsequently toured to The Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotland, [19] and then formed his solo exhibition in Japan ‘Portraits from Edo to the Present’ [20] [21] [22] at The Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, where the paintings were exhibited alongside Hiroshige's original The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō ...
Kanshaku tamanage Kantarō no Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (かんしゃく玉投げカン太郎の東海道五十三次, Firework Thrower Kantaro's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō) is an action-adventure game developed and published by Sunsoft for the Famicom.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's portrait of Oiwa.. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.
Tōkaidō. The Tōkaidō (東海道, literally, "eastern sea circuit" or "eastern sea region") is a Japanese geographical term. [1] It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it. [2]