Print, Tokaido Okazaki, Yahagi no bashi (The Archers' Bridge at Okazaki, on the Takaido), from Sho-koku Meiko Kiran (Views of Bridges in Various Provinces)
1831–32
woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A Japanese woodblock print depicts a landscape with a long bridge crowded with figures carrying bundles, with houses and trees in the foreground. Image shows a landscape with a long bridge with many figures, carrying bundles across it. Lower left foreground depicts roofs of houses and tops of trees. Japanese characters in upper right corner. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Hermanos
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