東海道五十三次

by Utagawa Hiroshige, Higuchi Goyo (Editor)

浮世絵師・歌川広重の代表作『東海道五十三次』保永堂版！

日本を代表する浮世絵『東海道五十三次』を大正8年(1919)、樋口五葉(1881-1921)の監修のもと彫り刷りから復元し、岩波書店より「再版」されたもの。解説などの順番を入れかえて電子書籍として復刻。

大正8年(1919)刊岩波書店版の国会図書館所蔵本を復刻

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1969

Reviews

[Nicole Van Overstraeten · Rating 5 out of 5]

Schattig klein boekje, met een accordeon, zo leuk!

[Meenakshisankar M · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I recently read "The Thirty Six Views of Mount Fiji" by the celebrated Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai, the other collection frequently brought up in comparison for similar style of woodblock prints was this book, representing fifty three stations in the Tokaido highway that linked Edo, Japan's administrative capital, with Kyoto, the imperial old capital. Hiroshige shows masterly skill in composing the different views of interesting day-to-day affairs, and the people going about with them. The descriptions provided interesting information not only about the paintings but also the lifestyle of people from that period.

[Marco · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it!!
That's all I can say :-D

If you like Japan and the paintings you have to read the book.
The paintings of Hiroshige are very beautiful and the descriptions to each of them are very comprehensible.

I think it is a must have for everyone who wants to travel to Japan to discover the old road "Tokaido".

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool! I liked the prints, particularly the winter scenes. The kindle edition included some modern photographs of some of the locations depicted in the 53 stations. I would have liked some captions on those stating where they were and what they depicted 9some bore very little resemblance to the scenes in the prints), but otherwise it was a lovely book.

[Lloyd Downey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am fascinated by the idea of a road that has been around for at least 400 years with such a history as the Tokaido. The coastal route between Kyoto and Tokyo which noblemen were expected to traverse, each year to pay their respects and tolls to the Shogun in Tokyo. Some of the original route is still there today....some with what purport to be the original paving stones...and probably are. A section of it runs behind my mother-in-law's current residence and I have paced up and down on it absorbing some of its history ....well at least in spirit. Hiroshige, set out on a major publishing project to capture in drawings ..thence woodcuts and thence multicoloured prints...the 53 stations along the route where the travellers would find lodging and food for the night. It was a mammoth undertaking and this book not only captures in high quality prints....the original woodcuts but also includes enlarged sections and other woodcuts of the same area. I have entertained the rather romantic notion of walking a couple of the sections of the Tokaido...specifically from Hakone or Odawara to Mishima. (I have family who live in Mishima and have always loved the widespread adoption of Hiroshige's woodcut of the Shrine at Mishima as advertising and labelling. One thing has always puzzled me about Hiroshige's prints and that is the odd placement of the legs.....perpetually bent like they are doing some form of knee bend exercises. Maybe if you are walking in straw sandals you DO need to lift your feet high...or maybe he just liked drawing them this way......Or maybe he just had trouble with legs. But this doesn't detract from the dramatic distorted perspectives ...the artful design of his prints and the fascinating historical record that they preserve. Hiroshige was an inspiration to many of the impressionist painters and so his legacy lives on in the western art tradition. I do recall watching the process of the printing the the colour is not applied evenly to the woodblocks. If they desire to have the blue sky fading away then the printer will wipe of some of the ink and then print. So even though the printing process may involve 4 colours and 4 separate woodblocks there is the possibility of almost infinite variation, depending upon the skill and intent of the printer. This book is all in Japanese and unfortunately I can't read the Japanese but as it is probably 95% pictures this is not a huge drawback. I must confess to a great admiration of Hiroshige and his work and I have thoroughly enjoyed this book. One thing that I really liked about it is the enlarges section of the main prints. These show in exquisite detail, the complexity of the drawings and the skill of the engravers and the printers. (I believe that most of these functions were undertaken by separate people...not Hiroshige himself. Alll in all, A great book and happy to recommend it.

[Claire Kreutzberger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une parfaite introduction à l'art de Hiroshige et un beau petit ouvrage (donc à un prix abordable).
Attention: ce livre recense les vues des 53 stations du Tôkaidô (la route conduisant de Tokyo à Kyoto par le sud). Il est précédé d'un court texte explicatif et de mini-descriptions de chacune des estampes. Si vous cherchez un livre d'art avec des explications très fournies, passez votre chemin.
Mais comme je le disais, cet ouvrage constitue une présentation idéale de l'oeuvre de Hiroshige. Les reproductions sont de qualité, même si rien ne vaut le fait de les voir en vrai, par exemple lors de l'exposition consacrée que la Pinacothèque de Paris consacre à Hiroshige en ce moment.

[Valentina Zunino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delizioso libriccino rilegato a soffietto con una copertina bruno-dorata che è una gioia per gli occhi. Prezzo abbordabile nonostante sia importato (intorno ai 25 euro da hoepli.) L'opuscolo di spiegazione allegato non è granché, gli editori francesi hanno cura di specificarti di aver scelto delle stampe accompagnate da poesie ma hanno mancato di inserire una traduzione delle stesse, della serie o sai bene il giapponese o ti puoi anche arrangiare.