双筆五十三次 三嶋
Mishima, from Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes
The sky shifts from navy to pale yellow and light blue. Beneath it, small white and pale pink roofs cluster in a valley.
About this print
Beyond the valley town, low mountains stretch in a line, and a river or channel runs below the rows of roofs. The left side is a dark slope. Below the inset, a woman in a wisteria-colored jacket over a kimono with a yellow floral pattern stands with her hands drawn to her chest, and on the right, a man in a green patterned kimono crouches low.
Hiroshige often drew the inset landscapes as views from above, keeping them simple so they would not get in the way of the figures in front. Mishima, written 三嶋 in the title, has long flourished as a post town on the Tokaido and as the town at the gates of Mishima Taisha Shrine; today the name is written 三島.
Turn your eye to the top of the slope at the upper left of the inset, and you'll find a pine reaching its branches out into the sky. It is drawn only as a black silhouette, and the tips of the branches stretching to the right reach the point where the sky turns from pale yellow to light blue.
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- Source title
- 『双筆五十三次 三嶋』（安政元年）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- Made
- 172+ years ago
- Added to site
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