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13th Station: Hara

13th Station: Hara

Series Title: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road - Hoeido Edition

Artist: Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797 - 1858)

Date: 1831 - 1834
Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 14 in. (22.9 x 35.6 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 1933.326.55.14

During the Edo Period, traveling on the highway was considered very dangerous and women travelers were usually accompanied by at least one manservant. Here, two women travelers, with a servant carrying their boxes, pass by rice fields overlooked by a huge snowy Mount Fuji. Note the two herons wading in the mid-ground marshes.

The neighborhood of Hara is considered the best vantage point for magnificent views of Mount Fuji and is the subject of many paintings.

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