Fuchu: Miroku 2-Chome, Abekawa/ 府中あべ川みろく二丁目 (Fuchu, Abekawa Miroku nichime)

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Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A night scene, travelers and townspeople pass in and out of a gate to what could be an inn or merchant district. Purple tinted mist hangs low over the buildings. Just beyond the town are gray hills against a blue sky. A crescent moon peeks out from behind the hills.

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Title: Fuchu: Miroku 2-Chome, Abekawa/ 府中あべ川みろく二丁目 (Fuchu, Abekawa Miroku nichime)
Creator(s): Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Issued: 1855
Genre: woodcuts (prints)
Topical Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art ; Mountains -- Japan -- Art ; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 ; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Continent: Asia
Country: Japan
Region: Tōkaidō
City: Tōkaidō
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0020
URI / Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100633
Related Work: Charles Nelson Spinks collection
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Series Description: Originally published by Koeido (Tsutaya Kichizo) in 1855. This series is in the vertical oban (large size) format. This series is commonly refered to as the Tate-e Tokaido (Vertical Tokaido). The series depicts the 53 stations of the Tokaido road, a route that ran Edo to Kyoto.

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