「東京開化名勝ノ内」 「浅茅ヶ原一ツ家古事」「真土山山谷掘」「橋場総泉寺境内化地蔵之図」

From the 'Tōkyō Kaika Meishō no Uchi' series, this print assembles three vignettes from the Asakusa and Sumida River corridor. The anchor scene depicts the Asajigahara One-House legend (浅茅ヶ原一ツ家古事), a well-known Edo-period tale of a solitary woman who murders wayfarers for their belongings at a desolate moorland hut — a subject Kyosai, a specialist in supernatural and oni imagery, would render with particular authority. A second vignette records the Sanyabori canal at Manuchiyama (真土山山谷掘), a waterway at the northern edge of Edo's Yoshiwara district. The third depicts the Kewai Jizō (化地蔵) at Sōsenji temple in Hashiba (橋場総泉寺境内化地蔵之図), a stone bodhisattva figure associated with transformation and boundary passage. The multi-vignette ōban format allows Kyosai to layer supernatural legend, waterway topography, and devotional imagery, connecting Edo's literary uncanny to its urban geography in a manner consistent with the broader meishō-e tradition.