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This is a route-map template for the Tokaido Shinkansen, a railway in Japan.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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]
This print is from the first (Hoeiko) edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Travel, particularly along the Tōkaidō, was a very popular topic in art and literature at the time. A great many guidebooks of famous places were published and distributed at this time, and a culture of virtual tourism through books and pictures thrived.
The capacity constraints on the Tokaido Main Line had been clear prior to World War II, and work started on a new 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge "bullet train" line in 1940. Intercity passenger traffic between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka largely transferred to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen after it was completed in 1964.
[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 ...
The Gokaidō. The Five Routes (五街道, Gokaidō), sometimes translated as "Five Highways", were the five centrally administered routes, or kaidō, that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (now Tokyo) with the outer provinces during the Edo period (1603–1868). [1]
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. All individual bonkei specimens were created by a second artist ...
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]