"Eight Views of Hell"
In the chapters from 62 to 66 I took the motif from Rakugo* "Hell's Eight Views of the Dead persons play".This scene is the crossing of the Styx.The phrase at the upper side is a Kouta** "The Meiji era is far away" written by Shinsui Ito.
Asakusa's nostalgic 12th floor
Egawa's balancing on a rolling ball
A curious world
Activity photos in the electric palace
Turtles and carp in the gourd pond
Performance of titmice in Flower house
Dark's Puppet,the doll made by Kamehachi Yasumoto
In Kan-non's Okuyama area,the instant photograph sellers and fortune-tellers
Line up the eaves to attract customers,Matsui Gensui's Iai-nuki***
An old woman painting on sand
The Meiji era is far away
*a comic story told by a professional storyteller
**a Japanese ballad accompanied on the shamisen
***the sword action at a moment