Arai: Ferryboats Arriving at the Checkpoint/ あら井渡舟着岸御関所 (Arai, Wataribune chakugan gosekisho)

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Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Looking down from the hill a village and temple entrance can be seen by the water. A line of ships leads the eye all the way to the opposite shore where the white silhouette of Fuji rises above the hills.

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Title: Arai: Ferryboats Arriving at the Checkpoint/ あら井渡舟着岸御関所 (Arai, Wataribune chakugan gosekisho)
Creator(s): Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Issued: 1855
Genre: woodcuts (prints)
Topical Subject(s): Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art ; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In 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_0032
URI / Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100645
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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