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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.
Ukiyo-e

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

Utagawa Hiroshige
artist Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, Japanese, 1797-1858
date c. 1837/42
medium Color woodblock print; chuban
origin Japan
dimensions 16.9 × 22.8 cm
credit line Clarence Buckingham Collection
hall 38 Ukiyo-e
rights public domain (CC0)
Art Institute of Chicago Full image

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