Cultural Experience

Ukiyo-e Exhibition

Local Artists Market

You can enjoy viewing the works and shopping while fellow artists and their fans gather in a friendly atmosphere.

Hanafuda Art Exhibition

Enjoy the original Hanafuda art exhibition and limited-edition shopping from the Japanese game company Brownies.

Manga Library

Christchurch City Mobile Library will bring a selection of popular Manga for Japan Fiesta EX attendees again!

Miku Artists Exhibition

An exhibition by the doujin group "Bring Miku to NZ" formed by 29 Japanese Hatsune Miku artists.

Mariko-juku (鞠子宿, Mariko-juku) , the 20th of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō

Japanese cultural enlightenment materials owned by the Consulate Office of Japan in Christchurch

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.

The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. Coming just after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, it established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views".

We would like to express our gratitude to the Consular Office of Japan in Christchurch for providing valuable resources on Japanese culture. Thank you very much.

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