Musashi Plain

Utagawa Hiroshige, Musashi Plain, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , 1852 I have been reading A Tale Unasked , Penguin's new Meredith McKinney translation of Lady Nijō's Towazugatari , a court and travel diary completed around 1307. After her expulsion from the palace she became an itinerant nun, travelling to famous shrines and checking out utamakura on the way. I have discussed…