Wood-engraving by Fumio Kitaoka, 1948. "The scene is the Yaesu exit of Tokyo station, on the then unfashionable side to the east, which had been opened only in 1929. In 1948 it was still one of the places where the near-destitute gathered. The man with a bicycle by the bridge is selling "mice candy"; it is not clear what the hatted man in the centre is selling, accompanied by an almost starving-looking child. Yaesu-guchi became in later years a much more prosperous entrance to Tokyo Station, and in 2002 outstripped the old entrance on Marunouchi for bustle and commerce." From: Smith, Lawrence. Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation 1945-1952, London: British Museum press, 2002, p. 116.