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Two Women on The Tōkaidō Highway
Two Women on The Tōkaidō Highway
Public domain: Image Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

Two Women on The Tōkaidō Highway

Artist (Japanese, active 1790s–1820s)
Dateabout 1796
Mediumwoodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions34.9 x 24.1 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
MarkingsPublisher's seal: Kichi (under roof-shaped line)
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.2910
DescriptionThe women are depicted standing and talking to each other. Back of them in the middle distance a bit ofthe lower slope of Mt. Fuji is seen.
Right-hand sheet of a triptych or a pentaptych
On View
Not on view
Fanciful Picture Of The Three Visits
Rekisentei Eiri
about 1798
Returning To His Yashiki
Rekisentei Eiri
about 1796
A Tayu
Keisai Eisen 渓斉 英泉
about 1830
Landscape (View of a Town)
American
after 1753
Distant View of the Erupted Fuji from Konoso
Keisai Eisen 渓斉 英泉
about 1835
A Group of Vignettes, the Tokaido Section
Utagawa Hiroshige I 歌川 広重
8th month rat year, 1852
Lovers at the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarters, scene 23
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
1768–1770
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Southern German
1480–1490