Rediscovering the Old Tokaido : : In the Footsteps of Hiroshige / / Patrick Carey.

• Superior document: Rediscovering ; 4
• VerfasserIn: Carey, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rediscovering ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

For the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige's 'Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido' are reproduced in full colour, supporting a detailed and intriguing account of the author's rediscovery on foot of the historic 303-mile road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Historical perspective -- Translations of Hiroshige's sub-titles -- Some features of a Hiroshige print -- Map showing fifty-three stages of the Old Tokaido -- Introduction -- 1. From the shogun's capital -- 2. From Musashi to the province of Sagami -- 3. Hot spring haven -- 4. Stone pavement -- 5. Incoming firearms, outgoing women -- 6. The road by the shore -- 7. Fuji on the left -- 8. Satta Pass -- 9. Japanese inn -- 10. The Meiji tunnel -- 11. The Oi River -- 12. The night wailing stone -- 13. Typhoon 19 -- 14. Sorobans, palanquins and post-towns -- 15. Fascist salutes and a ghost town -- 16. A divine wind -- 18. The seven ri ferry -- 19. Left for the Grand Shrines, right for the capital -- 20. The stone Buddha -- 21. Suzuka barrier -- 22. The six Jizo -- 23. The old apothecary's shop -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Facsimile page from author's Tokaido diary -- Namamugi: site of the Richardson incident -- Index.