Fuchu (Print #20 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

This image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a scenic river crossing, where several figures are wading through the water, some carrying goods, while others transport passengers in a small boat, set against a backdrop of rolling hills and an expansive sky with a sunset on the horizon.

This image is a traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting a scenic river crossing, where several figures are wading through the water, some carrying goods, while others transport passengers in a small boat, set against a backdrop of rolling hills and an expansive sky with a sunset on the horizon.

Name/Title

Fuchu (Print #20 in the Fifty-Five Views of the Tokaido Road series)

Entry/Object ID

2014.12.4.20

Description

A woman in a kago being carried across the Abe River, another woman carried on the back of a man, and a third on a carrier similar to the kago. Others are fording the stream from the opposite bank; a range of mountains in the background. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, spent his childhood and retirement years here.The Abe River flows to the west of this station and travelers had to cross in a variety of ways, as depicted in the print. This station has become the present Shizuoka City.

Type of Print

Woodcut

Category

Vault, Japanese, People, Vehicle, Landscape, Plants and Nature
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

13-7/8 in