Koume tsutsumi (Koume Embankment)

Description

Colour woodblock print, entitled Koume tsutsumi (Koume Embankment), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo), depicting the embankment, paddy fields and a river, with passers-by crossing a bridge in the foreground: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Museum reference

A.1887.745.39.74

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Uoya Eikichi, Publisher

Date

1857

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia