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A Shrine Visit
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A Shrine Visit

Ryûryûkyo Shinsai · 1809 · color woodcut; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Two women and a boy on New Year's Day on their way to a temple. One of the women holds a bamboo pole with wrapped gifts hanging from it; the boy carries the other end of the pole on his shoulder. From the poem it can be deduced that they are on their way to the Tenmangu temple at Kameido, in Edo. With three poems.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineA Shrine Visit. 1809. Ryûryûkyo Shinsai. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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