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Solitary Traveler's Guide to Railway

Utagawa Yoshitora

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a two-panel woodblock print. The top panel shows people on a bridge; one person holds a red parasol, and another an umbrella. The background contains a body of water and mountains. A yellow block at the top contains black Japanese characters. The bottom panel shows a train on tracks, headed toward the viewer, between steep cliffs. The train is yellow with a black base and red and black striped smokestacks. The cliffs have a jagged stone wall on the right. The background shows a blue sky with pink near the horizon. The color palette is muted; the print has a beige border. The artist's name is written in black text at the bottom left. The title is written in black text on a red vertical rectangle on the top right.

Artwork Details

Date
19th century
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
436 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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