Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 20

20 Fuchu - A woman in a kago being carried across the Abe River; others fording the stream from the opposite bank; a range of mountains in the background. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, spent his childhood and retirement years here.The Abe River flows to the west of this station and travellers had to cross in a variety of ways, as depicted in the print. This station has become the present Shizuoka City. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4)

Ando Fifty Fording Fuchu Hiroshige Hoeido Hoyeido Ieyasu Kago Magohachi Opposite Riverbank Shogunate Takenouchi Tokaido Tokugawa Travellers Ukiyo Utagawa Woodblock

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