Mt. Fuji on the Left at Nango (南湖の左富士)

The Tokaido Route, mostly National Route 1 today, ran south of Mount Fuji making the mountain appear on the right when heading from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.  However, due to the curve of the route, there are two spots along the route where Mount Fuji appears on the left where one being Nango in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, and the other being Yoshiwara in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Thanks to this Mount Fuji on left, Nango flourished as a relatively large tateba, a resting place situated between shukuba, during the Edo period.  Several teahouses called chaya (茶屋) stood in the area contributing to earning the name Chayamachi.

"Nango no Matsubara Hidari-Fuji" at the Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum

This scene was depicted in the ukiyo-e painting "Nango no Matsubara Hidari-Fuji (南期の松原左り不二)," which literally translates to “the Nango Pine Grove with Mount Fuji to the Left,” from the ukiyo-e series "Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (五十三次名所図会)"* by Utagawa Hiroshige.

A stone monument engraved "Nango no Hidari-Fuji no Hi (南湖の左富士之碑)"* was erected on March 1993 at the site in Nango next to the Toriido Bridge (鳥井戸橋) in front of the first torii of Tsurumine Hachimangu.

Nango no Hidari-Fuji no Hi

* The sign next to "Nango no Hidari-Fuji no Hi" mistakenly explains the site was depicted in the ukiyo-e series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (東海道五十三次)" by Utagawa Hiroshige.