. 日本語: 「大井川 無事に越しと 島田髷 文のかなやに 告るふる郷 梅屋」 English: In Japan, an island country with many rivers, having to cross bodies of water made traveling difficult and sometimes hazardous during the Edo period. In this image, a fashionable woman is transported across the Oigawa River. Her impressive hat is strapped to the straw mat shade to protect it from bending. As a contrast to her relative comfort, the grimacing faces of her porters reveal their struggle. Their nakedness also seems to accentuate the social division. Part of the series The 53 stations of the Tokaido in pairs(or '53 Parallels for the
. 日本語: 「大井川 無事に越しと 島田髷 文のかなやに 告るふる郷 梅屋」 English: In Japan, an island country with many rivers, having to cross bodies of water made traveling difficult and sometimes hazardous during the Edo period. In this image, a fashionable woman is transported across the Oigawa River. Her impressive hat is strapped to the straw mat shade to protect it from bending. As a contrast to her relative comfort, the grimacing faces of her porters reveal their struggle. Their nakedness also seems to accentuate the social division. Part of the series The 53 stations of the Tokaido in pairs(or '53 Parallels for the Tōkaidō Road'), a series of woodcuts composed by Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada and issued around 1845 by different ???: ???????? ??? English: T?kaid? goj?san tsui, Kanaya . between 1845 and 1846 (late Edo). Ebiya Rinnosuke - Tokaido gojusan tsui - Walters 95567
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