CATALOGUE 175. Ayasegawa River and Kanegafuchi, by Andō Hiroshige (Uspensky 2005:143).

A man on a log raft crosses the river. Unlike the lumber rafts this looks to be a more solid work. Another boat is moored at left. Uspensky notes that the location got its name when in the mid-18th century a bell cast in 1735 was being carried across the river when the boat overturned and the bell sank, never to be recovered. Thus the name Kanegafuchi, or “Bell Deep.” (Uspensky 2005:142)


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