Travellers Fording the Abe River at Fuchu

Travellers Fording the Abe River at Fuchu

Utagawa Hiroshige

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fuchu, a capital city of Suruga, was a prosperous city where Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, retired. In this print, three ladies are carried across the Abe River by porters—in a palanquin, in a simple litter, and on the back of a wader. The character, which can be read take (bamboo), is seen within a circle on the back of the green garment in the figure farthest to the right. It is one of the logos of the publisher of this series, Takenouchi Magobei.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.