塩田
Salt Fields
A view of the salt fields of Takehara, the place that made "Takehara salt" a famous name.
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An embankment and a channel run straight from the foreground into the distance on the right. To their right, flat, whitish ground is divided into plot after plot. Low mountains stretch across the back, closing off the flat expanse.
The title reads "Salt Fields." Near the start of Japan's early modern era, ahead of other places, Takehara brought in irihama-style salt fields from Ako, and spread the name "Takehara salt" across the country.
Scattered here and there across the divided white ground are small black shapes, perhaps huts.
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- Source title
- 『竹原名勝写真帖』（大正5年）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- Taken
- 110+ years ago
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