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A woodblock print featuring a wooden bridge on stilts elevated high above a body of shallow water on which floats a long flat boat. At shore, a figure bends over in the water and tends to a horse.

Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge on the Yahagi River (Okazaki, Yahagigawa Yahagi no hashi), no. 39 from the series "Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)," also known as the Vertical Tokaido

1855

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858

Japan

Color woodblock print; oban

Arts of Asia