東都名所年中行事 六月鉄砲洲ふじ詣
Sixth Month: Fuji Pilgrimage at Teppozu, from Annual Events at Famous Places of Edo
Under a sky shaded in red, women in patterned kimono stand in a row by the water. The "Fuji pilgrimage" in the title was a custom of climbing a fujizuka, a miniature Mount Fuji in town, at the start of the sixth lunar month.
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Blue water spreads out under a sky shaded in red. In front of it, two women stand side by side. The one on the right wears a navy kimono with white, polka-dot-like patterns, and the one in the middle wears a patterned kimono on a whitish ground. Both have their hair done up. In the lower left is a small figure in a dark kimono. From the middle of the right side downward, part of a red fence or building peeks in.
Teppozu is the old name for the area around today's Minato and Akashicho in Chuo Ward, once a sandbar on the west bank of the Sumida River. In the Edo period, it thrived as a port. The start of the sixth lunar month was when Mount Fuji opened for climbing, and people who could not make the trip to the mountain itself made their Fuji pilgrimage by climbing fujizuka, mounds built in town to look like Mount Fuji.
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- Source title
- 『東都名所年中行事 六月鉄砲洲ふじ詣』（安政1 (1854)）
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- 172+ years ago
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