19th Station: Fuchu

This scene once again takes place outside of the post station. It shows a woman in a kago being carried across the Abe River while others ford the stream from the opposite bank. The Abe River flows to the west of this station and travelers had to cross in a variety of ways, as depicted in the print.

The post station of Fuchu was another “castle town” although the castle itself is not represented in this print. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, spent his childhood and retirement years here. This station has become the present-day Shizuoka City.