Hiroshige's Journey in the 60-Odd Provinces
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) designed a series of 70 landscapes depicting the provinces of Japan between 1854 and 1856. It was the first of a number of sets from the highly productive years of his later life. The designs comprising Famous places in the 60-odd provinces (Rokuju yoshu meisho zue) are…
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Jansen’s book reproduces woodblock prints from Hiroshige’s Collection of Prints of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (1853–1856), which features a print of a famous place from each of the sixty-eight provinces of Old Japan, plus a print of Edo. When I looked through the prints in 2018, some of the places, were familiar to me; others, I had never heard of. I realized we had visited about a third of the places, so I set out to see the rest. The sites, of course, look different from the prints, but navigating backroads to visit them was always interesting.…
From Dennis' list on exploring roads less traveled in Japan.
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