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
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Illustrated book. Vol. 6 of six volumes. Guide to important places on the Tokaido processional route. Woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
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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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2014, April-Oct, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from prehistory to the present’
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.178.6
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.178 (Hillier no.)
