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| Keywords: Ebiya Rinnosuke - Tokaido gojusan tsui - Walters 95567.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Hiroshige Utagawa In Japan an island country with many rivers having to cross bodies of water made traveling difficult and sometimes hazardous during the Edo period In this image a fashionable woman is transported across the Oigawa River Her impressive hat is strapped to the straw mat shade to protect it from bending As a contrast to her relative comfort the grimacing faces of her porters reveal their struggle Their nakedness also seems to accentuate the social division The 53 stations of the Tokaido in pairs 1845-1846 late Edo pigments mulberry paper cm 36 9 24 9 accession number 95 567 29642 Justine Lewis Keidel date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel 1991 Signature Hiroshige ga; censor seal 'Mura' place of origin Japan http //www kunisada de/Kunisada-Tokaido-Series/parallels/Tokaido-parallels1 20 htm p26 Kunisada Project Series Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui Walters Art Museum license 2D Japanese prints in the Walters Art Museum Historic samurai prints Ebiya Rinnosuke The 53 stations of the Tokaido in pairs River crossings in ukiyo-e | ||||
