The masterpiece of Japanese picaresque literature and travel. Trip through the Tôkaidô narrates the adventures and misadventures of Yajirobei and Kitahachi, two incorrigible scoundrels, on their crazy journey along the great road that leads from Tokyo to Kyoto. Edited by installments in 1802, this satire full of humor obtained a tremendous success both among the readers of his time and among later generations, and is considered in our days as the great picaresque novel of oriental literature. The book also includes reproductions of Hiroshige woodcuts, illustrations depicting the frivolous world of inns, tea houses, pleasure districts, theaters, travelers, merchants, traveling actors and musicians, festivals ... A beautiful and colorful fresco of life in the Japan of the Tokugawa. "Going a little on foot and another walking" is a Spanish and Japanese saying that means walking. It represents a certain type of trip, a contemplative one in which the rush is not important.