Artist:Utagawa Hiroshige
Medium: Woodblock print
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Dates:2nd month of 1857
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (34 x 22.2 cm)
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Accession Number: 30.1478.104
Image: 30.1478.104_PS20.jpg,
Catalogue Description: A scene of the embankment of the Yotsugi-dori Canal in Koume Village on a bright winter's day. At the right two children are playing with puppies and also to the right are black alder trees, also seen around the farmhouses in the distance. These trees were useful not only for preventing erosion on the embankment, but also for hanging rice for drying after the fall harvest. The three log and earth bridges in this print are Hachitanme Bridge, Koshin Bridge, and Shichihonmatsu Bridge. Today a road has replaced this segment of the canal. A similar view of this print is in the "Ehon Edo Miyage," volume VII.