Utagawa Kunisada(ToyokuniⅢ) The production date:1852 The illustrated figure is Ichikawa Danjurou VIII, who was known as a handsome actor of the time. In this picture, he takes part of Matsuwakamaru, a character of a kabuki play. The framed title describes “Yoshida Bridge that was located between Totsuka and Fujisawa Stations”, but there is no bridge drawn at the background. Yoshida Bridge was a bridge that crossed over the Kashio River. This place was also famous for the fork that separates the Toukaidou Highway and the road to Kamakura. Yoshida Bridge was connected with Matsuwakamaru since he is from Yoshida family, an aristocrat family from Kyoto.

Torii Kiyomitsu The production date:1850 Banzuke or the ranking list was the printing media that was published for advertisement for the performance. Among the lists, ranking lists with the portraits, as this work were posted everywhere during November, when the Kaomise-kougyou performance that introduced all performers including actors, script writers, and members of the musical band of the kabuki company took place.　 The names of the actors are listed at the upper part of the picture. The character’s names that actors are especially good at were also introduced. At the lower part, actors who are performing particular characters from kabuki plays are also illustrated by a Torii school artist.

Kobayashi Kiyochika Kiyochika was active as an ukiyo-e artist from Meiji 9 (1876) to his death. Recognized as Hiroshige of the Meiji period, he developed his own painting technique, Kosen-ga (picture of ray of light) merging photographs, western style paintings and Japanese style paintings together.

Mt. Oyama commissioned Gonda Naosuke, a scholar who studied Japanese thought and culture, for the reconstruction of the temples, after it was severely damaged by the Shin-Butsu Bunri (Separation of Shintoism and Buddhism) policy took place during the early Meiji period. He founded “Oyama Keishin Church” by organizing all the small unions formed by worshippers of Mt. Oyama. The information of inns and hotels for the members are listed in this booklet. More than that, the guides of the road to Mt. Oyama and its periphery, post stations, and the mile stones to Mt. Oyama are also described in this booklet.