東海道 嶋田
Shimada on the Tokaido
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This nishiki-e shows the post town of Shimada, in what is now Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture. It appears to be one of a series in which many artists each pictured different places along the Tokaido road, made to mark the shogun Tokugawa Iemochi's trip to Kyoto in 1863 (Bunkyu 3). The artist is Utagawa Kunitsuna.
Shimada was a post town on the east bank of the Oi River. In the Edo period, travelers were required to cross the Oi on the shoulders of river porters (kawagoshi ninsoku) or on a rendai, a platform carried by porters. When the water rose, crossings were halted, and travelers could be stuck for days.
The area where the kawa kaisho, the office that sold kawafuda (crossing tickets), and the porters' waiting houses once stood was designated a National Historic Site in 1966 as the Shimada-juku Oigawa Kawagoshi Iseki (Oi River Crossing Site at Shimada Post Town). The kawa kaisho was built in 1856 and is the only building on the site that survives from the Edo period.
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- Source title
- 『東海道 嶋田』
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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- Copyright expired (public domain)
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