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210122-0045-OS - Farmers Harvesting Gobo

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Ehime Meiji 1870s Utagawa Hiroshige III

Woodblock print of farmers harvesting gobo (burdock) in Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku.

The root of the gobo is eaten as a vegetable or used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Original title: Harvesting burdock in Iyo Province (伊豫國牛蒡堀之図) from the series Products of Greater Japan (大日本物産圖會, Dai Nippon Bussan Zue) by Utagawa Hiroshige III (三代目 歌川広重, 1842?-1894). Published in Tokyo by Okura Magobei (大倉孫兵衛) in 1877 (Meiji 10).

The series was published just before the opening of the First National Industrial Exposition (第1回内国勧業博覧会) in Tokyo’s Ueno Park on August 21, 1877.

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