I Walked Japan's Kiso Valley and It Felt Like Stepping Into a Woodblock Print

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I Walked Japan's Kiso Valley and It Felt Like Stepping Into a Woodblock Print

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.BenLevyPhotography/iStockphoto/Getty Images Buildings in the Edo Period style in the town of Magome, Japan.In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo Period, two artists set out to document one of the country’s great roads. Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, …