TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,Patrick
TI  - Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige 
T2  - Rediscovering
SN  - 9789004214040
AV  - DS894.59.T632 
U1  - 915.210449 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Travel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword -- Historical perspective -- Translations of Hiroshige's sub-titles -- Some features of a Hiroshige print -- Map showing fifty-three stages of the Old Tokaido -- Introduction -- 1. From the shogun's capital -- 2. From Musashi to the province of Sagami -- 3. Hot spring haven -- 4. Stone pavement -- 5. Incoming firearms, outgoing women -- 6. The road by the shore -- 7. Fuji on the left -- 8. Satta Pass -- 9. Japanese inn -- 10. The Meiji tunnel -- 11. The Oi River -- 12. The night wailing stone -- 13. Typhoon 19 -- 14. Sorobans, palanquins and post-towns -- 15. Fascist salutes and a ghost town -- 16. A divine wind -- 18. The seven ri ferry -- 19. Left for the Grand Shrines, right for the capital -- 20. The stone Buddha -- 21. Suzuka barrier -- 22. The six Jizo -- 23. The old apothecary's shop -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Facsimile page from author's Tokaido diary -- Namamugi: site of the Richardson incident -- Index
N2  - For the first time in an English language edition published outside Japan, all 55 prints of Hiroshige's 'Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido' are reproduced in full colour, supporting a detailed and intriguing account of the author's rediscovery on foot of the historic 303-mile road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Remarkably, the Old Tokaido can still be found in many locations and photographs of the modern parallel the old
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004214040
ER  -