江戸名所（3枚続き）
Famous Places of Edo (Triptych)
Women with their kimono hems tucked up wade with children into the shallow sea, in a scene joined from a three-sheet nishiki-e (Japanese color woodblock print).
About this print
Blue shallows stretch from one end of the long picture to the other. Among the women with tucked-up hems, children crouch down toward the water. The woman in a striped kimono carries a basket, and the one in navy holds a flat basket or tray in both hands. Out at sea floats a two-masted boat with its sails lowered.
The long picture is a three-sheet nishiki-e that the National Diet Library joined into a single image. Shiohigari, gathering shellfish and the like on a beach left bare by the tide, is said to be best at the time of the big tides in spring (the third month of the old lunar calendar).
Follow the navy line near the top of the picture, and at about one third and two thirds of the way from the left, it shifts slightly, like a small step. That is where the sheets of paper meet. Each sheet has one woman drawn large.
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- Source title
- 『江戸名所』（嘉永5年）
- Held by
- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
- Original item
- View in the NDL Digital Collections
- Made
- 174+ years ago
- Added to site
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