Station Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese
Not on view
Officials from Fujikawa bow and welcome a procession representing the Tokugawa government. They traveled from Edo to Kyoto annually to deliver a gift of horses to the emperor on the first day of the eighth month. Hiroshige joined the 1832 procession to Kyoto.
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