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| | Hiroshige - Stewart Guide to Japanese Prints |
 | | Katase is a small village lying between stations Fujisawa and Hiratsuka, and though this plate appears to have been made for the Tokaido set, it is not included in the two volumes published on completion of the series, and it is, moreover, extremely rare. |
 | | The village is shown lying at the foot of a hill on the left, crowned with trees, and two men admiring the view from the summit ; in the distance the tree-covered island of Enoshima, towards which people are wending their way along the narrow sand-bank connecting it with the mainland. |
 | | Its rarity, and the fact that it does not appear in the bound book of Tokaido views, may very likely be due to the accidental destruction or loss of the block early in its career, when only very few impressions had been taken from it. |
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