Station Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido

Station Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Station Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the TokaidoStation Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the TokaidoStation Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the TokaidoStation Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the TokaidoStation Thirty-Eight: Fujikawa, Scene at the Border, from the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido

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.