Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed.The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travellers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the