Utagawa Hiroshige III
1877 (Meiji 10)
Donated by Tanba Tsuneo
In Iwate, there was a method of rearing cattle known as makiushi, or “pasturing cattle,” wherein farmers would take male and female Nanbu cattle (red cows, also known as Akabeko, now a famous symbol of Fukushima Prefecture) from the mountains and valleys to pasture in spring, raising and breeding the cattle amidst nature and then bringing them back home to the farms in fall.