53 STATIONS OF THE TŌKAIDŌ as POTTED LANDSCAPES ca. 1848

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53 STATIONS OF THE TŌKAIDŌ as POTTED LANDSCAPES ca. 1848

16 Printable Art Images

Connecting Tokyo with Kyoto, the Tōkaidō road was the most important of the Five Routes in Edo-period Japan. This coastal road and its fifty-three stations has been the subject of both art and literature, perhaps most famously depicted by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in his The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created in the 1830s. A book from the mid-19th century titled Tokaido Gojusan-eki Hachiyama Edyu  presents a series of fifty-three prints created by a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige, each illustration depicting a Tōkaidō station in the form of a potted landscape. There are two main arts of the potted landscape in Japanese tradition - saikei and bonkei. Similar to the practice of bonsai, saikei is the art of creating tray landscapes, combining miniature trees with rocks and water as well as other vegetation, while bonkei is a permanent tray landscape in which no living materials are used. The 16 plates available herein as PDF printable downloads are exceptional examples of the saikei art.

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