赤阪
旅舎招婦ノ図
赤阪は御油宿と共に、遊興の宿場として知られていました。その賑わいぶりは、当時の多くの紀行文に紹介されています。現在は新築家屋が多いが、間口が狭く奥行きが深い宅地割が残されています。
本陣（３）脇本陣（１）旅籠屋（６２）
名物（草 ）
Akasaka
Akasaka was about a mile northwest of Goyu. The pines along the road that separated them are still very much as they were in Hiroshige's time, so that they give an excellent idea of how the Tokaido looked.
Prostitutes seem to have been available in all of the stopping towns along the highway, but those in this general area were particularly well known.
Indeed, there was a song in which a traveler asks, "What would be the purpose of going back and forth to Edo if there were no Goyu, Akasaka, and Yoshida ? "
Hiroshige's picture shows a typical inn scene. The man with the towel over his shoulder is returning from the bath, while the man reclining inside with his pipe is presumably awaiting the services of the blind masseur kneeling in the doorway. At the right three women who have been called in to entertain are touching up their make-up.
当時の旅人たちが、旅籠屋のなかでどのように
くつろいでいたかを示す内部の図になります。
「保永堂版」で唯一の室内描写です。
舞台はお夕飯時の旅籠になり、中庭にはソテツが植えられています。
広重はソテツを境に、左右の部屋で繰り広げられる世界観を対比し、旅籠のリアリティを表現しました。
左の部屋では、男性客が寝転がり、旅籠の女性が膳を運んできたところです。
坊主頭の按摩もやってきました。
廊下にいる肩肌脱ぎの男性は、お夕飯前にひと風呂浴びたという風情。
