One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige Utagawa, Spring No. 33 "Towboats on the Yotsugi dōri Canal"

Present view

Painted by Hiroshige in 1856

(English)

This river was Hikifunegawa river. Some boats and people who was pulling the boats were shown on Hiroshige's print. This was called "Hikifune". The mountain shown on the upper left of the print was Mt. Tsukuba which was located northeast of Edo. By the direction of the boats and the location of Mt. Tsukuba, the people came back from Matsudo post town.

Now, Hikifunegawa river was reclaimed and it changed to Hikifunegawa park. And Hikifunegawa river was just straight, past and present.

(Japanese)

この川は曳舟川という。広重の絵には、何艘かの船と、それを引っ張る人夫が見える。これを『曳舟』という。絵の左上に見えるのは霊峰筑波山。船の向きと筑波山の位置から、松戸宿から江戸に帰ってきた人たちか。

今の曳舟川だが、一部残され公園化している。写真は真っ直ぐだが、地図を見て分かる通り、本当に真っ直ぐだ。広重はいつも、蛇行させる。その方が美しい。

Map made in 1880

より大きな地図で 四ツ木通用水引ふね を表示