Fifty-three Pairings for the Tōkaidō Road “ Arai ”

Kunisada1847

Shizuoka city Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
297-1 Yui, Shimizu-ku Shizuoka City , Japan

There is a woman with a travel diary in her hand on the Hamana bridge. The
woman has an Ohaguro and she has a brush in her mouth. Ohaguro is a distinctly
East Asian custom to paint the teeth black and was common among
aristocrats and married women in Japan.

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Title: Fifty-three Pairings for the Tōkaidō Road “ Arai ”
Creator: Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ
Date: 1847

Shizuoka city Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art

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