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"snow scene in Kambara" in the 53rd Ukiyo-e of Ando Hiroshige's Tokaido is very strange. snow scene in Hokkaido and Niigata is convinced, but it is unlikely that Hiroshige encountered deep snow in Kambara in the Tokai region. Did you draw snow scene in Kambara in Niigata Prefecture as "Kanbara in Shizuoka"? Or did you edit based on Kokan Shiba's "Yukiyuki Kamahara"? In this blog, I would like to consider the latter.

Hiroshige would like to take up "The Truth of Kokan Shiba" Fifty-three Tokaido "" by Chuchu Nyoun, which advocates the theory that he copied "Yukiyuki Kamahara".　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　①　It is said that Hiroshige has walked on the Tokaido once, but will he encounter heavy snow? It's also in Kambara in Shizuoka, Tokai region. If you think of it as a copy of Kokan Shiba's "Kambara", you will be satisfied. Kokan Shiba was written on June 12, 1813 (1813) to the lord horse of Saga clansman, saying, "It has been a bad cold for decades since last spring, and the eastern capital is particularly cold. But today is different from other countries every winter, and the cold weather last year is exceptionally cold from 3 days.

There is no doubt that I encountered heavy snow in Kambara on January 13th. According to the weather forecast at that time, the following is a description.

"Dec. 16, 1812 (January 18, 1813) Heavy snowfall has been severe cold since today, and it does not stop every day. It is more than six feet that arrive on the heavy snowfall area on the first two days,……After that, it is said that Ikebe's people will come and go on the pond until the next spring. Kohan, who was staying in Kyoto, stood at Kyoto for the Tokaido on New Year's Day on New Year's Day, and should have arrived at Kambara-juku on the 3rd or 4th with Kameyama-juku, Shono, Yokkaichi and Kuwana around 13 days down. . The snow in Kyoto continued to fall until January 12, but it remains doubtful whether it was heavy snow in Kanbara, but at that time the world was entering a small ice age and the Sumida River seemed to freeze in Edo, so Kambara's snow can be imagined. According to the ancient document ofvillage headman's Watanabe family, the old Kambara family, there is a description that there was a snow cover of 7 inches (21 cm) in 1842, and there is no contradiction that snow was falling in the picture.