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) by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重
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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 歌川 広重 · c. 1837/42

Museum record 4368: Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (To…

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For 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) (record 4368), st…

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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. MyArtTaste includes museum record 4368 as a recognizable discovery anchor, using the institution's official public-domain metadata and image for this spe…

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