Picture of the Seven Islands of Izu: Kōzushima Island: A Boggy Bank
Painted by Hasegawa Shinkichi 1846 (Kōka 3) Kondo Marine Memorial Foundation Collection Library 271

This seems to depict Senryō-Ike pond, north of the present-day Kōzushima Island Port. Senryō Pond refers to a small inlet located in a gourd-shaped pond under the lighthouse. It is said that in the times past, the area was a place where a great number of Senryōbune (coasting vessels of the Edo period that transported goods from northeast Japan to Ōsaka) were pulled in and it was so named.


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