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This is an exquisite book. I found it in a thrift store in NYC when I was in college. Thanks to Litsy and the #FoodandLit #japan challenge,I finally read it. In 1832, Ichiryusai Hiroshige, when he was 35, traveled the highway from Tokyo to Kyoto called the Tokaido. There were 53 stopping places about a day‘s journey apart. He created 53 colored prints of a view from each station. There is one on each page with a Japanese poem. A treasure.

Dinner at a local Japanese restaurant that has been in my neighborhood for a very long time. It took a Litsy challenge to finally visit it. This challenge has gotten my husband out of his comfort zone! I only have a photo of my first course, a vegetable tempura. Vegetables were asparagus,broccoli,mushroom and sweet potato. My entree was teriyaki tofu. Both were delicious. #foodandlit #japan