武藏青梅
Ome, Musashi Province
Through the branches of an overhanging tree, a wide river opens out among the mountains. A single band of white light lies across the water.
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From the upper left, a large tree with thin branches fanning out in every direction leans over the scene. Below it, a dark mountain ridgeline slopes down from right to left, with low trees along its foot. The bottom third is the wide surface of a river, with ripples and reflections, and across it runs a shining white band that looks like a sandbar or riverbank. The top third is bright sky.
Legend has it that the name Ome ("green plum") came from a plum tree linked to Taira no Masakado at Kongoji Temple, whose fruit never ripened and stayed green even into autumn. Today Ome City lies in the northwest of Tokyo, and the Tama River runs east-west through 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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- 128+ years ago
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