越中立山真景
True View of Tateyama, Etchu Province
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This woodblock print shows Tateyama, a sacred mountain in Toyama. It is one sheet from Shokoku Meisho Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views in the Provinces), a series in which Utagawa Hiroshige II depicted famous places across Japan, published from 1859 to 1861. The word shinkei in the title means "true view," the scene as it really is.
Tateyama is made up of three peaks, Oyama (3,003 meters), Onanjiyama (3,015 meters), and Fuji-no-Oritate, and together with Mount Fuji and Mount Haku it is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains. According to tradition it was opened in 701 by Saeki no Ariyori. It drew many climbers as a sacred site of Tateyama worship, in which pilgrims made a circuit of the mountain as if passing through paradise and hell.
Today it is part of Chubu-Sangaku National Park. Since the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route opened along its full length in 1971, visitors can ride all the way up to Murodo, 2,450 meters above sea level.
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- Source title
- 『諸国名所百景 越中立山真景』
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- 130+ years ago (roughly Edo to Meiji)
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