Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige

Based on the author’s epic walk, this is the remarkable story of personal commitment in the literal rediscovery of the old Tokugawa highway connecting Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto, which Japanese today believe to have been obliterated by twentieth-century modernization. Following in the footsteps of Hiroshige’s own experience of travelling the Tokaido, in 1832, recorded in his famous woodblock series The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido , which are reproduced here in full colour, the volume also includes photographs of many of the vantage points Hiroshige used for his pictures offering a then and now comparison.