Artist: Hiroshige I, Utagawa & Kiemon, Tsuruya
Size: 24 x 36 cm
Museum: Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore (Saitama City, Japan)
Technique: Print
During June and July of 1876, Emperor Meiji traveled to survey the Tōhoku (northeast) region and Hokkaido. On his way there, he passed through Gamō Village (present-day Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture), where he saw around 200 men and women planting rice and singing a song about hope for a fruitful year. This is the scene depicted in this nishiki-e, a multicolored woodblock print. This print was created based off news reports about the emperor
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