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Picture of Famous Prefectural Areas, Ichinomiya hikawa shrine, Saitama Prefecture

Hiroshige III1871 - 1894

Saitama Prefectual Museum of History and Folklore

Saitama Prefectual Museum of History and Folklore
Saitama City, Japan

Domestic sightseeing was popular in Japan from the latter half to the Meiji period in the Edo period. The Picture of Famous Prefectural Areas series is the ukiyoe print series handled in the same way as the brochure of the tourist attraction. This picture is pictured old Musashi country Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine in current Saitama. By the holy atmosphere of the Suginami tree of approach to a shrine, the people of the Meiji period wanted to visit this Shrine.

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