One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Plum Orchard at Kamata
Painted by Utagawa Hiroshige I 1857 (Ansei 4) Tokyo Shiryō Collection 0511-C59

The plum orchard in Kamata was established in the Bunsei era (1818-1830). It was said to have been started when a merchant named Yamamoto Chūzaemon who ran a pharmacy planted plum trees and a number of other trees and opened a teahouse on the premises.


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