At the left side of Shirahata Jinja and so that it can be seen from the street, one more huge ema-style tablet, this time with the reproduction (not very good but it's the thought that counts) of Hiroshige's painting of Fujisawa from the series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" (東海道五十三次) which contains images from the 53 post towns on the Tokaido (東海道) road that connected Edo to Tokyo in the years of the Tokugawa shogun. (The name "Tokaido" is used for the shinkansen train line connecting Tokyo to Kyoto which follows pretty much the same route.)
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore 2" set on Flickr).








