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1. 1 media/Shugyutosho high res (1)_thumb.jpg 2020-10-28T15:30:08-04:00 Maren Ehlers 18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d Vaccination Flyer 5 Advertisement for smallpox vaccinations and eye medicine, issued by a physician at Fujisawa post station on the Tōkaidō Highway in 1856. The lower left quadrant shows a physician vaccinating children in the presence of family members. The upper right quadrant depicts three methods for children to cross the Sanzu River (River of Three Crossings)--a station on the way to the underworld according to Buddhist tradition, but here shown as a roadblock on the way to adulthood. The first and riskiest method (swimming) is compared to infection with natural smallpox. The second-riskiest method (by boat) is marked as variolation with the human smallpox virus. The safest method (by bridge) is associated with cowpox vaccination, and children are shown to be crossing the bridge comfortably on the back of a cow. In the background, towards the right, Gozu Tennō ("ox-headed heavenly king") , a protective deity believed to ward off epidemic disease, watches over children marching to the Grand Shrines of Ise. On the left, a devil is leading a blinded, pock-marked child away. media/Shugyutosho high res (1).jpg plain 2020-10-29T09:10:20-04:00 Shiga University of Medical Science Library 20061201 102352+0900 20061201 102352+0900 Maren Ehlers 18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d