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An artistic manhole cover in Kawasaki City

photo: Junko Nagata ©Japanbyweb.com

A manhole cover in Kawasaki City featuring Kawasaki-shuku (川崎宿) in the 1830s as depicted by famous Ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the series “The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido”.

Kawasaki-shuku was the second of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, the road that linked Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto.

photo: Junko Nagata ©Japanbyweb.com
Kawasaki-shuku by Hiroshige

 

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