Down the Emperor's Road With Hiroshige.

Rutland, Vermont:: Charles E Tuttle Company, 1981.. 10th Printing.. Thin boards . BINDING/CONDITION: thin boards drilled and bound with thin red cord; the doubled pages are printed on only one side, and then folded, print side out, and that folded edge then forms the outer edge of the finished book. a Fine book, with a Good+ slipcase.. oblong format: about 3.75 inches tall by 6 inches wide . Description: A beautifully illustrated little travel book on Japan. The ''Emperor's Road'' is the Tokaido. It was down this road in 1832 that a detachment of the Edo fire-brigade traveled with a gift from a shogun to the emperor. One of the minor officials on the trip was Ichiyo Hiroshige, and he spent most of his time sketching. The results of these sketches appeared some time later back in Edo when he published a series of prints showing the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido. It was very well received and he published several series of prints. This book reproduces a little known version. Each double page layout has one full page color illustration, with text and a smaller black and white picture on the opposite page. This Tuttle edition was originally published in 1965, this is a later printing.