Okazaki

Ando Hiroshige

Date:

19th c.

Medium:

Japanese woodblock print

ID Number:

2013.2.5.39

• Description
  From the set of prints "53 Stations of the Tokaido." A daimyo's cortège crossing the bridge over the Yahagi River towards the village and castle on the further bank; in the background a blue hill, printed from colour blocks only. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, was born in the castle shown in the prints. The bridge over the Yahagi River, flowing west of the castle, was the largest on the entire highway.
• See Also

  Who

  Ando Hiroshige

  What

  Japanese woodblock print

  From the Collection

  G. Lewis Schmidt and Kyoko Edayoshi Schmidt Art Collection