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Source Description
In Japan, an island country with many rivers, having to cross bodies of water made traveling difficult and sometimes hazardous during the Edo period. In this image, a fashionable woman is transported across the Oigawa River. Her impressive hat is strapped to the straw mat shade to protect it from bending. As a contrast to her relative comfort, the grimacing faces of her porters reveal their struggle. Their nakedness also seems to accentuate the social division.
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Document identity
localId
29642
label
Tokaido gojusan tsui
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
29642
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Tokaido gojusan tsui
description
In Japan, an island country with many rivers, having to cross bodies of water made traveling difficult and sometimes hazardous during the Edo period. In this image, a fashionable woman is transported across the Oigawa River. Her impressive hat is strapped to the straw mat shade to protect it from bending. As a contrast to her relative comfort, the grimacing faces of her porters reveal their struggle. Their nakedness also seems to accentuate the social division.
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
1845-46 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Prints
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
36.9
height
24.9
dimensionsRaw
14 1/2 x 9 13/16 in. (36.9 x 24.9 cm)
style
Utagawa School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Hiroshige ga
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
14883
4238
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
2731560fabc5ecb6