Chiryu: The Old Story of the Irises at Yatsuhashi Bridge (Yatsuhashi no kakitsubata no koji), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi zue)"

Arts of Asia

1856

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
Japanese, 1797-1858

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Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Title: Chiryu: The Old Story of the Irises at Yatsuhashi Bridge (Yatsuhashi no kakitsubata no koji), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi zue)"
Origin: Japan
Date: 1856
Medium: Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet
Dimensions: 18.2 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection
Reference Number: 1939.1276

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