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Utagawa Hiroshige

歌川 広重, Japanese, 1797-1858

works 2dates 1837 – 1837halls Ukiyo-e
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Color print of travelers of foot and horseback following a grassy route flanked by Japanese bungalows and groves of trees. Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three…c. 1837/42 · Ukiyo-e Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right. Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River…c. 1837/42 · Ukiyo-e

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