The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido

About the Book: Mountains in moonlight, peacefully babbling rivers, remote post stations, and bustling towns: With their legendary series "The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido," completed in 1843, Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige created a masterpiece of Japanese woodblock printing. A compact TASCHEN reprint of outstanding quality.

Biography: Rhiannon Paget studied at the University of the Arts in Tokyo and holds a doctorate in Japanese art history from the University of Sydney. She is Curator of Asian Art at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and has published on Japanese woodblock prints, textiles, board games, and Nihonga. Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history in Bonn and earned his doctorate in Leiden on 19th-century actor prints. After his time as Director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art in California, he has been Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2013.

Pages: 512
AUTHOR
EDITOR AND AUTHOR: Rhiannon Paget
Andreas Marks
First published: 07/02/2024
Book language: Multilingual (English, French, German)
Edition: INT
ISBN: 978-3-8365-9487-5
Topics: Art and Classics
Dimensions: 15.6 cm x 21.7 cm, Weight 1.19 kg

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