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This article analyzed the contents of Hiroshige's Meisho Edo Hyakkei(One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), which is considered to had played a essential role as a mass- media among the people, the Shinbutsu Shugo(syncretistic fusion of Shintoism and Buddhism) era, in the late period of Edo, when there was no existence of the mass media. As a result of the analysis, the main theme of Meisho Edo Hyakkei was ‘religious life’ which consists 80% of the whole work, and religious features based on various idea of religion are described on scenery of Meisho(attraction) by ‘superimposition’. In the perspective that Meisho Edo Hyakkei was the mass󰠏media of the time, this can be regarded as the religious view of the people, who were engaged in many religious activity, had been expressed through the work.