Travellers Fording the Abe River at Fuchu
Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese
Not on view
Fuchu, a capital city of Suruga, was a prosperous city where Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, retired. In this print, three ladies are carried across the Abe River by porters—in a palanquin, in a simple litter, and on the back of a wader.
The character, which can be read take (bamboo), is seen within a circle on the back of the green garment in the figure farthest to the right. It is one of the logos of the publisher of this series, Takenouchi Magobei.
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