The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen. There are 71 total prints in the series.
Kisokaido 53 Kano
The title page for the series of ukiyo-e prints
Ukiyo-e print of Gōdo-juku, by Eisen
Kisokaido Nihonbashi
Nakasendō
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The Nakasendō, also called the Kisokaidō, was one of the centrally administered five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo to Kyoto. There we
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
…total prints in the series (one for each of the 69 post stations and Nihonbashi; Nakatsugawa-juku has two prints). The common name for the Kisokaidō is "Nakasendō" so the series is sometimes referred to as the Sixty-nine Stations of the Nakasendō. It is a follow-up to Hiroshige's The Fifty-three Stations of the…
Original ishidatami (stone paving) on the Nakasendō
Along the Nakasendō between Tsumago and Magome.
A modern-day guidepost for the Nakasendō near Takamiya-juku
Odaki waterfall west of Tsumago-juku