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東海道五拾三次之内 日坂之図
東海道五拾三次之内 日坂之図

資料名しりょうめい

Nissaka from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Toukaidou Highway”

作者さくしゃ

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

解説かいせつ

Utagawa Kunisada(Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ) 1833 The background landscape is the same composition of “Nissaka, Sayo Mountain Pass” from Hiroshige’s Hoeidou edition of the Toukaidou series.This Nakayama mountain pass was also famous with the “yonaki-ishi (a stone that weeps at night)”. According to a legend, a mother’s soul who died at this place leaving her baby alone transferred into this stone and weeps every night. The yonaki-ishi is located in the middle of the road, and few travelers stop by at the stone.

資料番号しりょうばんごう

10360

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