東海道五十三次之内 藤川 棒鼻の図
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.
Credit: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
c. 1833-34
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
22.9 x 35.6 cm
JP2483
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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