53 Stations of Youkai

53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

Toukaidou 53tsugi

For the ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige, see The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō.

 For the video game by SunSoft, see Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (video game).

The Tōkaidō in 1865.The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi) are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran 

from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto.

For a list of the 53 post stations of the Tōkaidō, see 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō.

Portrait of Hiroshige, his head shaven, at age over fifty, by Kunisada.

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), presented here, is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. This road, linking the shōgun's capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, is the main artery of old Japan. It is also the most important of the "Five Roads", the five major roads of Japan (Gokaidō), created or developed during the Edo era to further strengthen the control of the central shogunate administration over the whole country.

Even though the Hōeidō edition is by far the best known, The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō was such a popular subject that it led Hiroshige to create some 30 different series of woodcut prints on it, all very different one from the other by their size (ōban or chuban), their designs or even their number (some series include just a few prints).

The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. Coming just after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, it established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views" (meisho). These landscape prints took full advantage of the new possibilities offered by the Western representation of perspective, that Japanese artists had by now fully assimilated. Hiroshige's series met with full success, not only in Japan, but later in Western countries.

53 Stations of Youkai

 (Youkai53tsugi)「妖怪道五十三次」

BY SHIGERU MIZUKI

Shigeru Mizuki made 53 Stations of Youkai.

It has the same composition as Toukaidou 53tsugi.


Mizuki was make Toukaidou 53tsugi with Youkai.

Thisi is new youkai traditional world.

NIHONBASHI

MITSUKE

HIRATSUKA

KANAYA

MAISAKA

SAKANOSITA

SHIGERU MIZUKI MUSEUM

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Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる, Mizuki Shigeru, born March 8, 1922) is a Japanese manga cartoonist, most known for his Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro (which was originally titled "Hakaba Kitaro"). A specialist in stories of yōkai, he is considered a master of the genre. He is also known for his World War II memoirs and his work as a biographer.