Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido

The Kisokaido 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...