Seki ~ Kyoto

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Seki ~ Kyoto
Senshafuda print   (Part of the set: Famous Products along the Tokaido)

Unknown
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5.00 cm
14.00 cm

2020
00112-007
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00112-007

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

(Prints are numbered from right to left).

Print 25: Sakashita and Seki. The local speciality in the upper section is trout sushi. In the lower section we see a woman trying to usher a reluctant customer into her inn.
Print 26: Tsuchiyama and Minakuchi. The local speciality in the lower panel is kanpyo, dried strings of a type of gourd. In the upper panel rain falls heavily on some gassho-zukuri houses.
Print 27: Ishibe and Otsu. The delicacy in the upper panel is nameshi dengaku (tofu with a miso paste and a bowl of rice and greens). In the lower panel two tired messengers or travelers pass through Otsu.
Print 28: Kyoto, the end of our journey! The famous products in the lower panel are a foldable paper fan and beni rouge. In the upper panel is the famous daimonji (also known as Gozan no Okuribi) bonfire in the shape of the Japanese character "大" ("great") held annually on August 16 on Mt. Daimonji, Kyoto, at the end of Obon.

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