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
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions
- 16.9 × 22.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193308
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.
Provenance
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Registry history
- c. 1837/42 — Recorded in the collection of Art Institute of Chicago — prints
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