Courtesy of Walk Japan (2) From left: Nagataki, a ryokan in Nakatsugawa; stone paving along the Nakasendō ... that would follow one of the more complete sections of the old road—a string of ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to ...