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PLATE XVI, XVII

A Pair of Screens with Landscapes

A. Mount Tsukuba. B, Mount Fuji.

The pictures are not intended for illustration of the legend of the two mountains, but simply for the sake of landscape. Yet we can see how the two mountains conspicuously seen from the plain of Hitachi and neighbouring provinces gave rise to the legend of hospitality ascribed to them. See p. 251.

By Kano Shōsen (died in 1880). In possession of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.