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On the Royal Road: with Hiroshige on the Tōkaidō

On the Royal Road: with Hiroshige on the Tōkaidō - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:James BellPublish date:2021-08-20Pages:138
Language:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781848617865ISBN-10:1848617860UPC:9781848617865Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 8.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC31AT5EK0

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.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781848617865ISBN-10:1848617860UPC:9781848617865Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 8.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC31AT5EK0
Bell, James: - James Bell (1950-2021) was born in Edinburgh, where he remained until the late 1980s when he moved to the other end of the country, to live in rural North Devon. Having left school at 16, he first took up an apprenticeship, and then pursued a number of different jobs in order to support himself as an actor and mime-artist. After getting married, he went to Stirling University as a mature student, and took a degree in English. After graduating, he went into sales and marketing, but became tired of the corporate life, and acquired a postgraduate diploma that provided the pathway for work as a Careers Adviser. It was this role that he took up in Devon, and in which he remained until his eventual retirement.An occasional poet in his earlier years, and an unpublished novelist later, he became active in Devon's poetry scene and for many years co-hosted the monthly Uncut Poets reading series in Exeter. Towards the end of that period, he published two collections with the London press, Tall-Lighthouse, the just vanished place (2008, a chapbook) and fishing for beginners (2010, a full-length collection). At the turn of the decade, he moved with his wife to live in a Breton village, some 75 miles west of Rennes, where he continued to write.
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