Philippe Delord - Hiroshiges Japan: On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print Master - a Modern-Day Artists Journey on the Old Tokaido Road
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Journey along the famed Tokaido Road--an ancient thoroughfare with a modern twist.
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido is the best-known work of the great 19th century Japanese woodblock artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The series of 53 masterful woodblock prints depicts stops along the ancient Tokaido Road--which, from the eleventh to the nineteenth century, was the main thoroughfare between Tokyo and Kyoto.
Though the road itself is now submerged under Japans twenty-first-century urban landscape, French artist Philippe Delord set out to see if he could find the original locations, with just a moped, sketchbook, watercolors and a book of Hiroshiges prints.
Hiroshiges Japan allows readers to make the journey alongside Delord, venturing from Tokyo and Mount Fuji to mountain passes and rugged coastlines. Inside are all 53 original scenery prints made by Hiroshige, alongside their modern-day equivalent by Delord. A lively commentary about his experiences as he tries to locate each of the 53 scenes (without speaking Japanese!) offers readers an insightful, and often humorous, look into both modern and historical Japan.
Part travelogue, part work of art, this book is sure to delight armchair travelers, history buffs, art enthusiasts and Japanophiles alike!
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I made along the historic Tokaido road, atop a 125 cc scooter. This road,
stretching for three hundred miles (five hundred kilometers), dates back
to the eleventh century, connecting Tokyo (formerly Edo) to Kyoto.
find the locations depicted in the series of prints The Fifty-Three Stations
of the Tokaido , the best-known work of renowned artist Utagawa
Hiroshige (17971858), first published from 183233. As I tried to
capture the modern-day versions of these scenes in my own sketches and
watercolors, I found myself in a world floating between past and present,
where fabulous images from the Edo period and contemporary Japan
blended together. This book is a record of that journey.
Japans main island of Honshu. These five roads were collectively
called the Gokaido (lit., five roads). They all started from the newly
established capital, Edo, todays Tokyo. Two roads went north: the
Nikkokaido and the Oshukaido. Three roads went south to connect to
Kyoto: the Nakasendo and the Koshukaido went through the inland
mountains whereas the Tokaido, the Eastern Sea Road more or less
followed the Pacific coast.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun, had gained control of the whole of
Japan. Edo became the new capital of the country, seat of his military
government, the bafuku . The former capital, Kyoto, was still regarded
as the imperial capital. The Tokaido became the main thoroughfare for
traffic between these two administrative cities for feudal lords and their
retinues, as well as for pilgrims visiting religious sites at Ise, near Kyoto.
KAI = sea
DO = road
words, the Pacic Ocean Road.
English edition, 2001,
Tuttle Publishing.
least eleven woodblock
print series on the
subject of the Tokaido.
Three versions of 41st
station: Miya , are shown
here: right, published by
Hoeido; below right
published by Sanoki;
below, published
by Koeido.
Japanese edition of Shanks
Mare , 2013, published by
Iwanami Shoten.
provincial towns. Its path was well marked and controlled by guards who
monitored safety along the road. At regular intervals were stations:
places where travelers could find inns and restaurants. Many guides to
famous places ( meisho-ki and meisho-ku ) were published at the time.
These travel books would indicate distances between stations, local
specialties, as well as the prices of lodgings, and the locations of porters
and toll booths.
Ieyasu, fixed the number of stations along the Tokaido at fifty-three.
Along the roughly three hundred miles (five hundred kilometers)
separating Edo from Kyoto there would be a station every five miles
(eight kilometers) on average.
two books in my luggage. One was Shanks Mare , by Jippensha Ikku, first
published in serial form between 1802 and 1822. This comedy, largely
inspired by meisho-ku guidebooks of the time, relates the picaresque
adventures and misadventures of two pals who travel the Tokaido on
foot. The characters are Yajirobei and Kitahachi, better known in Japan
by the nicknames Yaji-san and Kita-san, or the contraction Yajikita to
refer to both of them.
this project; it contains the famous series of woodblock prints The Fifty
Three Stations of the Tokaido by Utagawa Hiroshige. The best-known
version of this collection of prints was published from 183233 by the
Japanese publisher Hoeido. The prints depict the fifty-three stations of
the road season after season, and linger with humor and empathy on the
numerous characters making their way along the thoroughfare. From
1832 until 1857, Hiroshige would design at least eleven different versions
of this set of prints.
master printmakers such as Hiroshige, has almost vanished in todays
modern landscape. Still, the Tokaido exists in a contemporary shape.
Even though the stretch of coast between Tokyo and Kyoto is heavily
built up, traces of the old road can still be found, meandering past
commercial and industrial zones, rice fields, tract houses, elevated
freeways and waterfront docks.
shinkansen bullet train line follow the route of the old Tokaido road.
Todays travelers may take these urbanized routes without giving a
thought to the original thoroughfare. But during my first trip along this
route, I would unexpectedly stumble upon reminders of the past, in
the form of a memorial plaque, a historical sign, or a section of the old
route preserved for the pleasure of tourists.
Tokyo to Kyoto. The Tokaido railway line more or less follows the path
of the East Sea Road from which it took its name.
men in custom-made suits, by women laden with delicate parcels,
by English-speaking foreigners with goatee beards. The conductor is
obsequious. He thanks passengers in a well-rehearsed speech and his
bowing upon leaving the train car is deferential.
voltage pylon to another above tract-house suburbs: rice fields border
factories; expressways, tortuous and elevated, fly above strip malls.
Over there, on top of a hill, a temple and its glossy roof tiles emerge
from dense vegetation. A trickle of water flows lazily into a too-large
river bed, walled in by high concrete dikes.
sea, a myriad of scintillations behind a barrier of chimneys, bridges and
docks. Everything is in a topsy-turvy rush. How to recognize the thread
intact within this tangled landscape?
and travel guide, it tells of the picaresque trials and tribulations of two
friends, Yajirobei and Kitahachi, who set off along the Tokaido road in
order to escape creditors from the eastern capital, Edo.
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