David's Choice - Episode #11

This is the next in our 'David's Choice' series, where Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull introduces some of his favourite prints. This episode takes on a very large topic - Hiroshige’s masterwork ’53 Stations of the Tōkaidō’. *** The old restaurant mentioned in the video - at Mariko Station - is called Chojiya. Their English website is here: https://chojiya.info/english The Mokuhankan website is: https://mokuhankan.com The Mokuhankan Collection (antique prints in our own collection) is: https://mokuhankan.com/collection Our Patreon page is:   / mokuhankan   Our Twitch channel is:   / japaneseprintmaking   Thank you for watching! 0:00 Introduction 4:22 Down the Tōkaidō Road: Starting at Nihonbashi 5:53 Tenth Station - Hakone 9:52 Seventh Station - Hiratsuka 12:17 Eleventh Station - Mishima 13:30 Twentieth Station - Mariko 14:52 Thirty-sixth Station - Akasaka 16:38 River Crossing Scenes 20:55 Ito Susumu, Kakegawa, and Discussion 26:39 Opening the Takamizawa Set 32:59 Looking at Smaller Sets 35:38 Bigger (Double Oban) Set and Weather on the Tōkaidō 38:43 Comparison of Different Editions of Chiryu 42:25 The Tōkaidō Then and Now 46:54 Story Time and Conclusion