16.Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province

One of the ukiyo-e art from “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). 

Several ships and two islands float on the Tokyo Bay. Ishikawa island is covered with trees on the left side and Tsukuda Island is the one where crowded with the fishermen’s houses on the right side.

Except for the small waves the boats are raising, it has a quiet sea level like a mirror. You can get to know the life that used the boat for fishing, taking people on, and carrying luggage.

The vertically placed mast stand on the far horizon. It is a ukiyo-e woodblock printing making use of the indigo shades.

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Pleasure District at Senju from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

15.Pleasure District at Senju  15. Pleasure District at Senju It is an ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting the scenery along the Nikko Highway. The row of people in the front is the daimyo's procession, they are on the way to their home. They hold the firearms and spears in the scarlet bags. The houses of Senju pleasure district can be seen far away. Between the distant view and the foreground, the rice field where rice crop was over has spread. In the middle of the fo...

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The Kazusa Province sea route from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

17.The Kazusa Province sea route  17. The Kazusa Province sea route This woodblock printing seems to be drawn from the view point of Uraga Channel in the Kazusa Province(Chiba Prefecture). On the Bosho eninsula, there were many harbors including, Kemigawa Harbor, Kisarazu Harbor, and Yawata-ura. We can see the faces of the crew from the Benzai-ship and Mt. Fuji in thetriangle made by the rope and sail. Mt. Fuji, the ropes and wave make a lot of triangle in this image.&nbsp...

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