Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1847-1852 According to the caption on the upper part of the picture, “When Oguri-Hangan is forced to drink the poisoned liquor by a brigand, he pretends to get drunk and escapes from it. Then, the brigand steals Oguri’s horse Onikage and ran to Mikawa, but at the end, the brigand is attacked by Oguri”. In the sekkyou-bushi or the oral-derived legend, Onikage is a monstrous horse that eats human. The episode that Oguri made the wild horse Onikage into his horse is one of the famous episodes of the story. At the Yugyouji Temple, there is even the grave of Onikage.

Artist: Kawanabe Kyousai Production date: 1863 (Bunkyu 3) A procession is passing by the monument of “Shigitatsu-sawa”, illustrated on the right. Viewing the beach around this area, Saigyou, a famous Japanese poet of Heian period penned a short poem. Later, a monument was built at this scenic place where the remnant of the period when Saigyo wrote this poem still remained. In this picture, two poets who kneel down to the procession are also illustrated in front of the monument.

Artist: Chikamaro (Kawanabe Kyousai) Production date: 1863 (Bunkyu 3) Umezawa was a rest station along the Toukaidou Highway, located at the Yamanishi Village (Today’s Ninomiya Town). This place was flourished with many travelers who could not cross the river. Since Sakawa River often swelled by the rain and Odawara post station was located across the river, travelers were forced to take a rest at Umezawa.

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Ⅱ Production date: 1863 (Bunkyu 3) A bridge spans over Sakawa River while the custom of kachi-watashi, or crossing over a river by riding on porters’ shoulders still took place. At the background, Futago-yama (Twin Peaks Mountain) of Hakone is illustrated.

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Ⅱ Production date: 1863 (Bunkyu 3) procession is passing by a seaside highway beside the heaving billows. At the foot of Mt. Hakone, illustrated on the left back, the Odawara Castle is seen among the pine trees.

Ikeda Youson Production date:1926－1936 Ikeda Youson was born in Okayama. He first studied Western style panting at Osaka, and studied Nihon-ga, or Japanese style painting from Takeuchi Seihou. Youson was greatly influenced by a poet, Taneda Santouka and traveled all over the country with the outfit of Santouka, and produced many sketches of the landscapes of various provinces. He was also influenced by Utagawa Hiroshige, and went on sketching tour along the Toukaidou Highway by walk. He produced many works of the Toukaidou, and this work is one of them.

Utagawa　Kuniyoshi Production date:1830-1842 There are many anecdotes of Yoshitsune’s exploits. “Ichi-no-tani (Hiyodori-goe) no Sakaotoshi” is Yoshitsune’s famous surprise attack on the Taira clan from the rear side of Ichi-no-tani, which contained a steep precipice, followed by his cavalry and army. This heroic and thrilling composition became one of the typical compositions of the warrior pictures.

Utagawa　Kuniyoshi Production date:1830-1844 According to “the Chronicle of Yoshitsune (Gikeiki)”, Yoshitsune’s childhood name was Ushiwakamaru, and he studied at Kurama Temple after he ran away from the capital. There is an anecdote that he studied under the tengu (Tengu are mythological human-like mountain dwelling creatures.) of Kurama Temple who trained him the sword fighting. In this picture, Ushiwakamaru is doing sword fighting training with karasu (raven) tengu.