Forum: A Response to Keith Cushman's "Lawrence's Dust-Jackets: Addenda and Corrigendum"

[...]in the bottom right corner of the original, a man wears a round hat. [...]different colors are used on both illustrations' "frame" (or "scaffolding," to use Roberts's terminology). Miyao Shigewo, Ukiyoe expert, comments on Hiroshige's Fukagawa Mannen Bashi: It is said that in Hiroshige's time street peddlers used to sell turtles or carps or eels to pedestrians on bridges or along riversides or on streets so as to make money by trying to urge the pedestrians to perform for the animals a merciful act of buying and throwing one or some of the animals into the river because Buddhism taught that saving animals was a merciful act and promised salvation to the mercy-givers after their death, though it is not certain whether the benefactors would surely be sent to heaven. [...]it was published from 1856 until his death in 1858 (see Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho Vol. 3 [132]).