江戸風俗十二ケ月の内 三月 潮干狩の図（右の1枚）
Third Month: Shellfish Gathering at Low Tide, from Twelve Months of Edo Customs (Right Panel)
On a beach with tall-masted ships floating offshore, a woman in a checked kimono and a woman in a red kimono stand barefoot side by side. It is the seashore in the third month, with the tide out.
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Out on the distant sea, two or three tall-masted ships are floating. On the beach in front, a woman in an ocher checked kimono and a woman in a red kimono with a purple obi stand barefoot. At the back on the right is a roofed boat, with people visible inside.
Two more sheets continue to the left, and this is the right end of the three-sheet set. The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts describes shiohigari, shellfish gathering at low tide, as something the people of Edo enjoyed out on the flats when the tide went out in the third month of the old calendar. On the tidal flat at the back left, there is also a small figure in a red kimono.
Look closely at the ships offshore: no sails are set, and only thin masts, many of them, reach up into the sky. Amid the low, wide stretch of beach and sea, it is these masts that reach highest.
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- Source title
- 『江戸風俗十二ケ月の内 三月 潮干狩の図』（明治23年）
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- 136+ years ago
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