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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

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.
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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.

Date:

1855

Artist:

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Japanese, 1797-1858

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Title

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

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

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1855

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

36.8 × 22.5 cm (14 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson

Reference Number

1968.348

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