illustrated book; print

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Object Type: illustrated book; print
Museum number: 1979,0305,0.178.1
Title: Object: Tokaido meisho zue 東海道名所図会 (Pictorial Guide to Famous Places on the Tokaido)
Description: Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of six volumes. Guide to important places on the Tokaido processional route, starting in Kyoto and ending in Edo. Woodblock-printed.
Producer name: Print artist: Tosa Mitsusada (土佐光貞); Print artist: Yamaguchi Soken 山口素絢; Print artist: Takehara Shunsensai 竹原春泉斎; Print artist: Maruyama Ozui 円山応瑞; Print artist: Shimokōbe Ikei 下河辺維恵; Print artist: Kinoshita Oju 木下応受; Print artist: Oku Bunmei 奥文鳴; Print artist: Tanaka Totsugen (田中訥言); Author: Akisato Rito 秋里籬島; Published by: Yanagihara Kihei 柳原喜兵衛 (principal publisher)
School/style
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1797
Production place: Published in: Osaka-shi; Published in: Kyoto-shi; Published in: Edo
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 26 centimetres; Width: 18.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Hillier and Smith 1980 'Meishoki', or guides to important places, were published for a great many localities and do not normally rise above a sort of humdrum topography in ink outline. This book, although still without colour, was rather more ambitiously planned, and a number of prominent Maruyama-Shijo artists were enlisted as illustrators, including Goshun, Soken, Ozui, Bummei, Naokata and others. The Tokaido was the main highway between Edo and Kyoto.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Tokaido
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1979
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1979,0305,0.178.1
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.178 (Hillier no.)

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