Two people are holding up a historic black-and-white photograph to the camera, showing a procession on the old Tōkaidō Road through Hakone – taken on the very same stretch of road, which is still lined with Sugi cedars (Kryptomeria) today. The ‘picture-within-a-picture’ motif illustrates the visual continuity of this section of the historic overland route between Edo and Kyoto. Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan