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 […]
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17.The Kazusa Province Sea Route Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) used the Prussian blue pigment also for the ukiyo-e art effectively. This woodblock printing seems to be drawn from the view point of Uraga Channel in the Kazusa Province (today’s Chiba Prefecture). On the Boso Peninsula, there were many harbors including, Kemigawa Harbor, Kisarazu Harbor, and Yawata-ura. We can see the
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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
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15.Pleasure District at Senju It is the ukiyo-e woodblock print, one of the “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji“, 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
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14.Senju, Musashi Province Senju was the first post town on the highways of Nikko-dochu and Oshu-dochu, prospering as one of the four major postal station in Edo. The farmer with the horse and the angler hand over the shade and look up to Mt. Fuji. at the same time. They may be talking something about the view
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13.Sekiya Village on the Sumida River The Japanese woodblock print is one of the series of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Sekiya was the area around Senju dry riverbed on the Sumida River. The winding road that three samurai riding on the horsebacks was the Ushida bank. The mustle of the horses
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12.Sunset across the Ryōgoku Bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi The ukiyo-e woodblock printing silhouettes the figure of Mt. Fuji wrapped in the orange light of the setting sun. The dusk is falling from the upper sky and the far buildings and boarts also turn into the gray shadows. Even
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11.Tea house at Koishikawa, the Morning after a Snowfall The series of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” contains 46 ukiyo-e woodblock printings, but the image is just the single artworks of the snowy scene. From the second floor of the tea house, people enjoy the view that a snowfall during the night made.
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10.Below Meguro Currently there are many stylish cafes, but the countrified Below Meguro (Shimo-Meguro) was the area of hills and farming. Especially, it was famous for the place where the shoguns hunted with a falcon. Let’s see the ukiyo-e woodblock printing by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The lower right of Mt. Fuji making an appearance
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9.Watermill at Onden One of the series of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Harajuku, the town leading the latest in fashion today, was the rural district where the people live at leisure in Edo Period. We can not see anymore, but the Shibuya River run Onden village. This river also flows now under the
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