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On the Royal Road

On the Royal Road

with Hiroshige on the Tokaido

by James Bell and Hiroshige
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/08/2021

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Long fascinated by Hiroshige's woodblock prints, and especially the famous Tokaido Road albums, James Bell worked for several years on an extended series of ekphrastic poems inspired by the second of Hiroshige's albums (1840-42), the famous Kyoka sequence in which each image contains a short comic poem. The sequence contains 56 images - one for each of the 53 stations, or stops, on the route from Edo to Kyoto, plus one for the starting point (Edo's Nihonbashi Bridge) and two for the terminus in Kyoto, the second of which is the Imperial Palace. This volume reunites James's wry poems with the images that inspired them, and includes an appendix of five further poems written to images from the first, so-called Great Tokaido album (1833-34), the work that made Hiroshige's name.

A book for those who love poetry and also those who love art; those who love both will be doubly rewarded.
ISBN:
9781848617865
9781848617865
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-08-2021
Publisher:
Shearsman Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
138
Dimensions (mm):
203x203x10mm
Weight:
0.31kg
James Bell

James S. Bell, Jr., owner of Whitestone Communications, has served as executive editor of Moody Press and director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible.

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