近江唐崎の松
The Karasaki Pine
Beneath the Karasaki pine, its foliage spread low and wide, stands a row of thin poles.
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Below the poles, a bright, flat band runs across the picture, and in the foreground, uneven ground that may be stone or earth sinks into darkness.
Karasaki lies north of Otsu, on the western shore of Lake Biwa, and Karasaki Shrine stands on a point of land that juts out into the lake. The shrine belongs to Hiyoshi Taisha. Night rain falling on the shrine's old pine is counted among the Eight Views of Omi as "Night Rain at Karasaki." The first pine was cut down in 1591, and the second, planted after it, is the one Utagawa Hiroshige painted. That second pine died in 1921, and the pine there today is descended from it.
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- Source title
- 『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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- Copyright expired (public domain)
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- Taken
- 128+ years ago
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