Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重

c. 1837/42

Color woodblock print; chuban

Art Institute of Chicago

A color print depicts a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, ferries crossing a winding river, and tent-like structures in the distance, with Japanese text at the top. A color print depicts a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, ferries crossing a winding river, and tent-like structures in the distance, with Japanese text at the top. Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.