Utagawa Hiroshige 1844～1853 This print was published when the statue was made available for viewing in 1851. It portrays three beauties standing in a row, with the sand bar leading to Enoshima in the background. The woman in the center has draped a yukata (unlined cotton robe) on top of her nagagi kimono. On trips, yukata were worn over the shoulders on top of kimono, in place of capes. The route for the pilgrimage to Enoshima went along the coast, and yukata were probably required items for warding off the briny breezes coming from the sea.

Utagawa Hiroshige The Production date: 1834-1856 (Kaei 6-Ansei 3) Publisher: Echi-Hei (Echizen-ya Heizaburou) Hiroshige chose “The Gate of Iwaya (sea cave)” of Enoshima Island as the representative landscape of Sagami province in the series “Sixty Views of Famous Places” that introduced the nation-wide famous places. As this series, many of Hiroshige’s works produced in his late year of his career during 1844 to 1858, when he was forty-eight to sixty-two, he produced many works in vertical prints. He was searching for new compositions of space that cannot be achieved by the expressions in horizontal prints at the end of his career.