National Museums for the National Landscape Day, Sunday, March 14, 2021
Tomorrow, on the occasion of National Landscape Day, March 14, 2021, by Museumon Oriental Art of Venice will dedicate a short film to the Japanese landscape as depicted in the 1855 series of Tōkaidō views by Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the most prolific printmakers in the landscape genre.
A voice will guide the listener to discover the major stations on the Tōkaidō route, the Eastern Sea Route that connected Edo, present-day Tokyo to Kyoto, the two capitals of Japan during the Tokugawa period, through forests, small villages, impervious gorges and coastal profiles of unparalleled charm.
The Video will be uploaded to the Museum's facebook and instagram page at 12 noon.
The National Museum and Archaeological Area of Altino will dedicate to the event an audiovisual content on the landscape of Altino, a land of extraordinary charm, on the edge of the Venetian lagoon. The video will be uploaded on the fb page of the Museum at 9.00 am.
