Okitsu: Okitsugawa Satsuta no fumoto (Okitsu: Okitsu River, Base of Satsuta)

Description

Colour woodblock print number 18 entitled Okitsu: Okitsugawa Satsuta no fumoto (Okitsu: Okitsu River, Base of Satsuta) from the series Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue (Famous Places Along the 53 Stations [of the Tōkaidō] Illustrated) depicting men carrying people and parcels across the Okitsu river: Japan, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

Museum reference

A.595.52.15

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print

Production information

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797 - 1858, Artist
Japan, East Asia
Tsutaya, Publisher

Date

1855

Associations

Depicted: Tokaido (road), Honshu, Japan, East Asia
Depicted: Okitsu, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken, Japan, East Asia
Depicted: Satta Kokuji, Shizuoka-ken, Japan, East Asia