Futakawa: Post House on Monkey Plain/ 二川猿が馬場立場 (Futakawa, Sarugababa Tateba)

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Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two shops with inscribed signs and their merchandise on display take up the bottom left corner. The road passes in front of them busy with travelers. Beyond the road a green hillside speckled with trees dominates the scene.

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Title: Futakawa: Post House on Monkey Plain/ 二川猿が馬場立場 (Futakawa, Sarugababa Tateba)
Creator(s): Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Issued: 1855
Genre: woodcuts (prints)
Topical Subject(s): Mountains -- Japan -- Art ; Landscapes -- 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_0034
URI / Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100647
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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