Fujiyeda Post Station, Tokaido Road series by Hiroshige

A busy post station yard in a woodblock print: a dark horse at left, bare-legged men in short coats and loincloths carrying and loading wooden crates and boxes, with a bundled load on one man's back. Pale yellow-ochre ground and blue-green band, pine branches at top left, and a house with a verandah at right frame the scene.

Artist

Ando Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1834

Medium

Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3000 × 1937 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum