18 Sep 2019

Station #12: Numazu – carrying a mask to the fair by moonlight

by kevinbacon | posted in: Exhibition tour | 0

Travellers walking along a tree-lined river bank towards Numazu-shuku, under a huge full moon in a deep blue sky. One of the travellers is wearing the white robes of a pilgrim, and is carrying a huge Tengu mask on his back, indicating that his destination is the famed Shinto shrine of Kompira on Shikoku. — Hiroshige, Station #12: Numazu – carrying a mask to the fair by moonlight, c1833-34
Photography: James Pike

Hiroshige
Station #12: Numazu – carrying a mask to the fair by moonlight
From the series 53 stations of the Tokaido (#13)
c1833-34

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