One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Minowa, Kanasugi and Mikawashima
Painted by Utagawa Hiroshige I 1857 (Ansei 4) Tokyo Shiryō Collection 0521-C30

Mikawashima (present-day Higashi-Nippori in Arakawa Ward) was a place where "tsuru" (cranes) flew to during the Edo period, and people fed them in November every year after surronding them with a bamboo fence. This was also one of the hunting areas of "Tsuru no Onari" where the Shogun himself would hunt the cranes with falcons and offered them to the court.


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