The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido
The Scenic Places of the Tokaido Processional Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 8411748359

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The Scenic Places of the Tokaido (Tokaido Meisho no Uchi) by 17 artists is based on the list of prints on the Kunisada Project website run by Dr Horst Graebner with a total of 162 ukiyo-e prints. It is a fantastic work, an effort presumably directed by the shogun ́s political office to commemorate his attempt to preserve a joint rulership with the emperor over Japan. It differs from the many other Tokaido series by the large number of prints, at least three times as many in a series. If differs by the number of people in the prints - the procession consisted of 3,000 people. It also marks the end of the ukiyo-e Tokaido, where the forced travel of the daimyo - sankin-kotai - had contributed so much to the economic and cultural development along these roads and indeed to the whole print making industry. The shogun abolished sankin-kotai in 1862.

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya
Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Aritaya

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 3757808630

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All the way through Hiroshige follows certain design principles of proportion of elements, arranging elements and views by diagonals and parallels and balancing of color elements. Compared to most of his other Tokaido series Hiroshige in Aritaya focus on letting the landscape tell the story instead of letting people or legend do that, although this is not followed through completely.

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 8411749819

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Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1802 is something completely different from his first square series 1801. Hokusai here employs the horizontal "landscape" format and abt the double size of his square 1801 series. In this series Hokusai focus on wonderful folkloric scenes of ordinary people going about their work, in addition to the travel scenes. Hokusai also begins to develop the landscapes that were to become a standard for later generations of Tokaido series. Hokusai develops the concept of the Tokaido print from cartoon to folklore and the beginning of landscape. He builds on a b/w guide, Tokaido meisho zue from 1797, ISBN 9781956773316. It was a great and early contribution to the growing Tokaido literature, which Hokusai dominated for some 30 years.

Keisai Eisen A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara
Keisai Eisen A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 8411749886

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Keisai Eisen (1790 -1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is well known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendo together with Hiroshige. The series A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans, Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara use the Tokaido with landscape inserts as an excuse for showing courtesans and geisha, bijin-ga, to skirt the censorship. It was published 1821-1823. His bijin-ga are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818-1830). Most of them have impressive hairdo with many ornamental hairpins and combs. Their dress is extravagant with beautiful patterns and sublime embroideries. Their faces are elongated squares with long noses and small pouted painted mouths. Courtesans were desirable for their rich and splendid attire, not so much for their beauty and their names were actually like trademarks for a series of girls performing the same name role with the brothel in question.

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1801
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1801

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 8411748316

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Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido1801 is something completely different! It is his first. It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life ́s work. It is different from much of Hokusai ́s other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here. It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of the Tokaido in that Hokusai does not focus on the landscape and the markers that Hiroshige and others showed. Instead Hokusai focus on the events, the interactions between the travellers, the tales that you will share with your friends when you get back home. It was a great and earlier contribution to the Tokaido literature.

Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido
Hiroshige Kunisada Kuniyoshi 53 Pairings of the Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 8411746518

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This series, Fifty-three Pairings of the Tokaido Road, Tokaido gojusan tsui, popularly called Pairs Tokaido or 53 Parallels for the Tokaido Road, was published in 1845-1846. It is a unique cooperation between three artists: Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi and five publishers: Ibaya Kyubei, (Ibaya Senzaburo (Dansendo)) and Kojimaya Jubei, Enshuya Matabei, Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudo) and Iseya Ichibei. The special feature of this Pairs Tokaido is the pairing of a print for each station with a legend, a wonderful, dramatic, historic or supranatural story. These stories are told partly by the print theme, partly by accompanying text in a cartouche. Sometimes there is a poem. It is a very enjoyable tour!

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1806 Horizontal
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1806 Horizontal

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 8411749835

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Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1806 Horizontal is the last known full Tokaido series by Hokusai. It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life ́s work. It is different from much of Hokusai ́s other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here. It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of the Tokaido in that Hokusai explores novel ways of designing the print, further developing what he started in the 1804 Horizontal Tokaido. Hokusai experiments with person themes, voids and white space but also do great full landscapes and humorous encounters on the road.

Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Vertical
Hiroshige 53 Stations of the Tokaido Vertical

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 8411748219

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The official title for this work is "Pictures from the Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations". Hiroshige produced these prints in 1855 more than 20 years after his first horizontal Hoeido series published 1833-34, which is included as thumbnails for comparison. It is instructive to see Hiroshiges use of his now mature experience as he develops the vertical format for the narrative. He does designs as he would do a photograph. He set the standard for landscape photography, without a camera. The Tokaido series was the most popular print series ever made in Japan. Hiroshige returned to this theme again and again, with delightful results. It is possible to travel the same road today and some villages are still looking quite like they did back then. The postal stations were constructed between 1601 and 1624.

Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido
Hiroshige - Kunisada Two Brushes Tokaido

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-09-25

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 8411238512

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The cooperative work between Hiroshige and Kunisada (1854 -1855) is probably the most romantic of all the Tokaido editions. Both Hiroshige and Kunisada did their own individual versions with the same type of theme - a combination of landscape and often unrelated portraits based in legend and other motifs. But they did not rise to the level of elegance of the "Two Brush" Tokaido. The figures and the landscape are very well balanced and the colors are fresh and joyful. The "Two Brush" Tokaido is both a tour through the landscape of Japan and a cultural introduction. The reason for the combination of landscape and theater was to circumvent censorship of the popular kabuki theater prints.

Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1805-1806
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1805-1806

Author: Cristina Berna

Publisher: BOD GmbH DE

Published: 2024-08-26

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 8411749827

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Hokusai ́s 53 Stations of the Tokaido 1805 - 1806 is something completely different! It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life ́s work. It is different from much of Hokusai ́s other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here. It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of the Tokaido in that Hokusai does not focus on the landscape and the markers that Hiroshige and others showed. Instead Hokusai focus on the events, the interactions between the travellers, the tales that you will share with your friends when you get back home. It was a great and earlier contribution to the Tokaido literature