Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) “Even a person free of passion would be moved to sadness: autumn evening in a marsh where snipe fly up” by Saigyou In this picture the landscape of Shigitachi-zawa (Shigitachi-zawa means a stream where snipes fly up.) of Oiso is illustrated. This place has a connection with a famous monk and poet, Saigyo from the Heian period. During the early Edo period, the Shigitatsu-an, a haikai poetry school was opened at this land and attracted many haiku poets. The indication “Saigyou-an” at the lower right is considered as the En’i-dou (En’i is Saigyou’s holy name), where Saigyou’s sitting statue is located. This is an e-baisho (anthology of the seventeen syllables Japanese haiku poems with related pictures) that a variety of poems written by the notable contemporary poets from the haikai poetry circles are allotted with the pictures of famous places of the Toukaidou, as a hokku-shu (anthology hokku or haiku poems ) appears in pictures. This series was the changed title version of “Toukaidou Meisho Hokku-shu (The Hokku-shu of Famous Places of the Toukaidou)”, published by Eiraku-ya Jousuke in 1851, and originally the format of this picture was hanpon or book style. However when this version was made, the landscapes of Edo to Izu were re-edited as a gajou (folded picture book) format, thus the readers can appreciate each landscape as the independent picture. When Hiroshige produced this work, he was also commissioned to paint nikuhitsu-ga (paintings) from Tendou clan. Therefore the expressions such as the composition with natural dimension and bluish pale touch of the color in this series are influenced from the painting expressions.

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) Oiso and Hiratsuka, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou In this picture, the landscape from the Hiratsuka post station to the Oiso post station is illustrated. The “Morokoshi-ga-hara” (Today’s “Tou-ga-hara”) is illustrated at the lower right of the picture. It is said, a group of people from Korean Peninsula moved into this place during 5th century. The mountain illustrated at the right upper part is Kouraiji-san (Mt. Kourai Temple) and its name came from the temple that enshrines Koma-no-Jakkou who came to Japan from an ancient kingdom of Korean Peninsula, Koukuri. At the upper left side from the mountain, there is the land that extends to the Oiso post station and Shigitachi-zawa. This is an e-baisho (anthology of the seventeen syllables Japanese haiku poems with related pictures) that a variety of poems written by the notable contemporary poets from the haikai poetry circles are allotted with the pictures of famous places of the Toukaidou, as a hokku-shu (anthology hokku or haiku poems ) appears in pictures. This series was the changed title version of “Toukaidou Meisho Hokku-shu (The Hokku-shu of Famous Places of the Toukaidou)”, published by Eiraku-ya Jousuke in 1851, and originally the format of this picture was hanpon or book style. However when this version was made, the landscapes of Edo to Izu were re-edited as a gajou (folded picture book) format, thus the readers can appreciate each landscape as the independent picture. When Hiroshige produced this work, he was also commissioned to paint nikuhitsu-ga (paintings) from Tendou clan. Therefore the expressions such as the composition with natural dimension and bluish pale touch of the color in this series are influenced from the painting expressions.

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) The Lake at Hakone and Gongen-sha (Hakone Shrine), from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou With the mountains of Hakone at its background, the landscape of the Lake Ashino-ko is illustrated. The horizontal indication at the right of the picture “Sai-no Kawara” (Riverside of Sai: Children’s Limbo) was a famous for the Mecca of the devotees for Jizou Shinkou (Jizou Worship. Jizou is a bodhisattva who looks over children, travelers, and the underworld.), and it is said many images of Buddha and pagodas made by stones are situated by the lake. The sign on the left below is the indication of “Gongen-dou”, an approach that leads to Hakone Shrine known as Hakone Gongen. This is an e-baisho (anthology of the seventeen syllables Japanese haiku poems with related pictures) that a variety of poems written by the notable contemporary poets from the haikai poetry circles are allotted with the pictures of famous places of the Toukaidou, as a hokku-shu (anthology hokku or haiku poems ) appears in pictures. This series was the changed title version of “Toukaidou Meisho Hokku-shu (The Hokku-shu of Famous Places of the Toukaidou)”, published by Eiraku-ya Jousuke in 1851, and originally the format of this picture was hanpon or book style. However when this version was made, the landscapes of Edo to Izu were re-edited as a gajou (folded picture book) format, thus the readers can appreciate each landscape as the independent picture. When Hiroshige produced this work, he was also commissioned to paint nikuhitsu-ga (paintings) from Tendou clan. Therefore the expressions such as the composition with natural dimension and bluish pale touch of the color in this series are influenced from the painting expressions.

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige Production date: 1851 (Kaei 4) The High Peaks of Hakone, from the series Famous Places of the Toukaidou In this picture, mountains of Hakone, the Myouban-yama (Mt. Myouban) on the right, the Koma-ga-take (Mt. Koma) in the middle and the Kan’muri-ga-take (Mt. Kan’muri) on the left and a canyon are illustrated. Mt. Myouban was considered to be located near today’s Kami-yama (Mt. Kami), and known for a large yield of alum (Alum is myouban in Japanese). In fact, alum produced from this mountain was a souvenir of Hakone. This is an e-baisho (anthology of the seventeen syllables Japanese haiku poems with related pictures) that a variety of poems written by the notable contemporary poets from the haikai poetry circles are allotted with the pictures of famous places of the Toukaidou, as a hokku-shu (anthology hokku or haiku poems ) appears in pictures. This series was the changed title version of “Toukaidou Meisho Hokku-shu (The Hokku-shu of Famous Places of the Toukaidou)”, published by Eiraku-ya Jousuke in 1851, and originally the format of this picture was hanpon or book style. However when this version was made, the landscapes of Edo to Izu were re-edited as a gajou (folded picture book) format, thus the readers can appreciate each landscape as the independent picture. When Hiroshige produced this work, he was also commissioned to paint nikuhitsu-ga (paintings) from Tendou clan. Therefore the expressions such as the composition with natural dimension and bluish pale touch of the color in this series are influenced from the painting expressions.

Artist: Unknown 1779 (Anei 8) This is a douche-ki that illustrates the detailed travel route from Kanazawa Hakkei via Kamakura to Enoshima Isalnd with explanations of the famous places along side. Douchu-zu was a map of Edo period that illustrated the travel route of both land and sea, and it is similar to the combination of today’s roadmap and guide for the famous sites. From this work, it is clear that the route from Kanazawa via Kamakura to Enoshima was already established as a typical travel route by the late18th century.

Artist: Katsukawa Shuntei 1798-1820 (Kansei 10-Bunsei 3) The Battle of Ishibashi-yama took place in 1180 between Minamoto no Yoritomo and Oba Kagechika with the Taira Clan. In this picture, the scene of interception when Yoritomo raised his army at Izu and proceeded to Yugawara is illustrated. The interception took place by more than three thousand armies led by Oba Kagechika and the worriers such as Matano Kagehisa, Shibuya Shigekuni, and Ebina Suekazu all of the warriors who ruled the Fujisawa regions also joined with Kagechika. According to “The Tale of Heike (Taira Clan)”, before this battle was taking place, there was a fight between Houjou Tokimasa and Oba Kagechika. Kagechika declared to Tokimasa that he was the descendant of Kamakura Kagemasa, who fought with Minamoto Clan by the time of the Gosan-nen War. Then Tokimasa asked the reason that Kagechika has to fight against the Minamoto Clan, since he was the descendant of the Minamoto clan’s former vassal, Kagemasa. Then, Kagechika answered “The master of old time is now my enemy. My gratitude for the Taira Clan is higher than mountain and deeper than sea.”

Artist: Ichiensai (Utagawa) Kunimasu Publisher: Osaka, Wataya Kihei c.1830-1854 (c.Tempou-Kaei era) Various motifs were used to illustrate the sugoroku board games of the Journey of the Toukaidou Highway, but once the “Toukai-douchu Hiza-kurige (Shank’s Mare Tour of the Toukaidou Highway)” became enormously popular among the people, many sugoroku games were produced based on this story. This sugoroku is one of them thus there are many devices and episodes that connect the story with the sugoroku game. The scene illustrated in each section is from the scene of “Hiza-kurige” and the starting point (Usually the regular starting point of sugoroku is the Nihonbashi Bridge, the starting point of the Toukaidou Highway) is switched to the Kanda Haccho-bori, where the main character of the story lives.

Introduction written by Hashi Rien Production date: 1787 (Ten’mei 7) This is an inaka-ban (works printed and issued locally) version of shiibun (poetry and prose) of the views of landscapes of the Enoshima Island. This anthology of “shibun” of Japanese and Chinese poetries was composed by the poets of Goshomi, the district of today’s northern Fujisawa city. The eight views of Enoshima Island are, “Autumn Moon at Kinki-zan (Mt. Kinki)”, “Hazy Morning Sunlight at Iwaya”, “Night Rain at Shounien Abyss”, “Wild Geese Alighting at Ujima”, “Returning Sails at Higashi-ura”, “Sunset at Nishi-ura”, “Evening Snow at Futatsu-yama”, and “Evening Bell at Koutou-ji (Koutou-ji Temple)”. With the poets from today’s Fujisawa city, districts such as Endou, Uchimodori, Miyahara, and Youda, the poets from Koyato and Koyurugi from today’s Samukawa town, and Yoshioka from today’s Ayase city participated to this anthology. Utou of Youda, a poet participated to this anthology, also contributed a poem to an anthology “Shoukai-Shiji”, the memorial poetries anthology that celebrated the re-construction of Oiso Shigi-tatsu-an, a former poetry school at Oiso. The condition of the print is unstable and the printed pigments were uneven at the several spots. At this time, the printing operation usually took place at the metropolitan areas, such as Edo (today’s Tokyo), Osaka and Kyoto and the works printed at the other area were called, inaka-ban, or the local print. Together with its contents, this particular print is very valuable as a historical artifact, since this was probably printed at Fujisawa region