Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) [Aw145]
Fording the River at Okitsu, one of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, 1855
Woodblock print on paper, (H. 35cm, W. 24cm)
Inscriptions top right, red box: Illustrations of famous places of the 53 stations; white box: Fording the river at Okitsu.
No. 18 of the 1855 Tate-e (‘vertical’) edition of Tokaido prints, published by Tsutaya. Okitsu was the 17th of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō.
Provenance: Uchida Art Co. Ltd., Kyoto Handicraft Centre; Given by Adam Crick (1957-2016) to Winchester College, 2007