Famous Places of the Sixty Provinces
Famous Places of the Sixty Provinces is a series of nishiki-e produced by UTAGAWA Hiroshige I from 1853 to 1856. The sixty provinces are an old Japanese administrative division of regions, used from the Nara period (710-794) to the Meiji period (1868-1912).
See Also: NDL Image Bank "Famous Places of the Sixty Provinces"
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The NDL Gallery is online content that you can enjoy using the digitized materials of the National Diet Library. It also provides information on exhibitions in the National Diet Library.
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