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Color print of travelers of foot and horseback following a grassy route flanked by Japanese bungalows and groves of trees.
Ukiyo-e

Hamamatsu, 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 17.1 × 22.9 cm
credit line Clarence Buckingham Collection
hall 08 Ukiyo-e
rights public domain (CC0)

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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. Utagawa HiroshigeMitsuke: 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)

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