18.Bay of Noboto

People are gathering the shells in shallows of Bay of Noboto. The two Torii of Towatari Shrine in the sea. They still locate in today’s Chiba-shi, Chiba Prefecture. But they was moved before and not in the sea now.



They take a similar figure and the simple line of Mt. Fuji is placed in the bigger one. Katsushika Hokusai（1760-1849) often employed the composition that the mountain show its appearance in a space of a strucure. 

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The fishermen are carrying a cage full of shells, the women are talking and kids are playing together.

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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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Ushibori in Hitachi Province from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

19.Ushibori in Hitachi Province  19. Ushibori in Hitachi Province The ukiyo-e printing depicts the Lake Kasumigaura in the early morning. As the cold colors underlie, this artwork is the scene of the winter and express the freezing weather. A man is pouring away the water that has been used to wash rice to the lake from the boat with the roof. The boat is placed in the diagonal of the screen. And the two white egrets are flying away. It may be no sound around there except ...

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