Skip to Content

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)

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.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

Image actions

  • 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.

Date:

c. 1837/42

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

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)

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1832–1847

Medium

Color woodblock print; chuban

Dimensions

16.9 × 22.8 cm (6 5/8 × 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1930.59

IIIF Manifest  The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world.

Learn more.

https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/4368/manifest.json

Extended information about this artwork

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Share

Sign up for our enewsletter to receive updates.

Learn more

Image actions

Share