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Toba Harbor
Pale houses cluster at the water's edge, wrapped from behind by low hills. Toba, in Shima Province, was once a port where sailing ships waited for the wind.
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In front of the houses, a wide, calm stretch of water opens out, and far off to the right a low, flat strip of land runs across. In the lower left foreground, dark masses of rock pile up, rough and jagged, all the way to the bottom edge.
Toba was a key point on the sea route linking Osaka and Sakai with Edo. Ships crossing the Enshunada and Kumanonada seas waited here for the wind or put in to escape rough water, and people and goods gathered in the port. In the age of sail, which lasted until the middle of the Meiji era, skippers are said to have climbed Mount Hiyori to read the next day's sky.
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- 『日本名勝写真帖』（明治31年10月）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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- 128+ years ago
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