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Hodogaya, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Highway by Two Brushes” |
作者 |
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Utagawa Hiroshige |
解説 |
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Utagawa Hiroshige 1854 The ladle the young boy on the right is holding is probably for a pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine. Children or servants going to the Ise Grand Shrine without permission from their parents or masters were called “Nukemairi”, or pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine without a travel permit or permission, and, on such occasions, people going to the shrine with no money took a ladle with them. Holding out the ladle to people encountered on the way would also bring a divine reward to those thus blessed. The inset shows Kanazawa Kaidou road. In the background, we can see Mount Fuji with expansive fields in the foreground. While this may not appear to be anything out of the ordinary at first glance, it is said that this Kanazawa Kaidou road, which branched off from the Toukaidou and led to Kamakura, was a well-trafficked popular road. The reason that the artist purposely depicted this highway may have been to show that Hodogaya Station was an important point for traffic branching off to many other roads. |
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