Hiroshige and Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed.

Rhiannon Paget

The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto.  Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenan...