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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.

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)

c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858

Japan

Color woodblock print; chuban

Arts of Asia