{"id":31385,"date":"2026-07-06T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=31385"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:30:52","slug":"the-art-of-katsuyuki-nishijima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/07\/06\/the-art-of-katsuyuki-nishijima\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Katsuyuki Nishijima"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaid\u014d<\/em> is a ukiyo-e<\/em> print series by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige depicting notable places on one of the main roads leading from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. A modern-day version of the series by Katsuyuki Nishijima follows a similar route (as much as it still exists) showing some of the old buildings seen along the way.<\/p>\n

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Nishijima’s prints have heavier lines than you find in their 19th-century equivalents but few of his scenes look immediately contemporary. In these and other prints he favours architectural views or details: thatched farmhouses, inns and shops, most of which are traditional timber buildings. What you don’t see in his prints of villages is recent buildings or even modern details like the electricity lines that follow Japanese roads. The Kiso Kaid\u014d<\/em> series is unusual for including a pre-war brick building, one of a handful still standing in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district. People are also absent from these scenes. Hiroshige’s views of the Kiso Kaid\u014d<\/em> all feature groups of travellers but in Nishijima’s pictures any human activity is taking place out of our sight.<\/p>\n

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The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaid\u014d is a ukiyo-e print series by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige depicting notable places on one of the main roads leading from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. A modern-day version of the series by Katsuyuki Nishijima follows a similar route (as much as it still exists) showing some of … Continue reading “The art of Katsuyuki Nishijima”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The art of Katsuyuki Nishijima","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[14362,14664,12033],"class_list":["post-31385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","tag-katsuyuki-nishijima","tag-keisai-eisen","tag-utagawa-hiroshige"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-8ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31387,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions\/31387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}