illustrated book; print

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Object Type: illustrated book; print
Museum number: 1979,0305,0.178.6
Title: Object: Tokaido meisho zue 東海道名所図会 (Pictorial Guide to Famous Places on the Tokaido)
Description: Illustrated book. Vol. 6 of six volumes. Guide to important places on the Tokaido processional route. Black and white woodblock-printed. [JH.178, vol. 6, image 1] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 2] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 3] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 4] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 5] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 6] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 7] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 8] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 9] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 10] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 11] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 12] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 13] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 14] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 15] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 16] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 17] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 18] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 19] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 20] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 21] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 22] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 23] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 24] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 25] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 26] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 27] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 28] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 29] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 30] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 31] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 32] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 33] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 34] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 35] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 36] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 37] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 38] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 39] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 40] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 41] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 42] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 43] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 44] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 45] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 46] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 47] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 48] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 49] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 50] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 51] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 52] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 53] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 54] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 55] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 56] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 57] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 58] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 59] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 60] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 61] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 62] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 63] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 64] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 65] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 66] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 67] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 68] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 69] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 70] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 71] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 72] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 73] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 74] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 75] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 76] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 77] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 78] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 79] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 80] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 81] [JH.178, vol. 6, image 82]
Producer name: Print artist: Go Shun (呉春, Matsumura Gekkei); Print artist: Yamaguchi Soken (山口素絢); Print artist: Maruyama Ozui 円山応瑞; Print artist: Oku Bunmei ( 奥文鳴); Print artist: Naokota; Published by: Yanagihara Kihei (principal publisher)
School/style
Cultures/periods: Edo Period; Kansei Era
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
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2014, April-Oct, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from prehistory to the present’
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Tokaido
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1979
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1979,0305,0.178.6
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.178 (Hillier no.)

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