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Traveling along Oyama Road with Harimaze-e Pictures |
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Utagawa Hiroshige The production date:1858 Harimaze-e (Paste the mixed pictures) was the picture that several famous places (landscapes, local specialties, stories, etc.) are illustrated in a single picture, and Hiroshige produced several harimaze-e works that illustrated the places all over Japan, including places along the Toukaidou Highway. In the first painting, from the top layer, Ninhonbashi Bridge (A summer’s custom, a tea stand that provides the barley hot tea.), Shinagawa (Matoi, or a straw craft, which was a local product of Omori. People brought back matoi as a souvenir for the pilgrimage to Mt. Oyama), Kanagawa (A scenery of port), Hodoga-ya (Tome-on’na, or the women who tried to bring in the customers to their inns. People stayed overnight at Hodogaya, before they go back to Edo.), and Kawasaki (Pear, a local specialty of Daishi-gawara) are illustrated. In the second painting, from the right below, Totsuka (Yakimochi or a toasted rice cake. Since yakimochi was sold at the border of Shinano village and Hirado village, along the slope, this slope was named as Yakimochi Slope), Fujisawa (A woman serving food for the customers of inns), Yotsuya-oiwake (Yotsuya of Fujisawa city. Oiwake is a fork of road. Oiwake as the place to change human labors and horses are symbolically illustrated with a palanquins and legs of horses), Isehara (A city located at the foot of Mt. Oyama) and Otaki (One of the falls located in Mt. Oyama. Pilgrims purify their body by standing under the waterfall.) are illustrated. In the third painting, from the right below, Tamura (A ferry to cross the Sagami River from Yotsuya to Oyama), Koyasu (A village located along the road to Mt. Oyama between Isehara and Mt. Oyama.), Mae Fudou of Oyama (A hall located in front of Oyama Temple.), Sekison-ji Raigou-dani (A place where at the time sun sets into Mt. Fuji located at west, the atmosphere of “the decent of Amida Nyorai” emerges.), and Ryoben Waterfall (One of the waterfalls located in Mt. Oyama. It is said that Saint Ryoben purified his body in this waterfall when he opened the Oyama Temple in this place.) are illustrated. All the famous places and specialties invite viewers to the pilgrimage to Mt. Oyama. |
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