Japanese Print "No. 1 Nihonbashi 日本橋 / Kisokaido rokujoku tsugi no uchi 木曾街道六十九次之内 (Sixty-Nine Post Stations of the Kisokaido)" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Artist:Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title:No. 1 Nihonbashi 日本橋 / Kisokaido rokujoku tsugi no uchi 木曾街道六十九次之内 (Sixty-Nine Post Stations of the Kisokaido)
Date:1852 (5th month)
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Source:British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nihonbashi Station. Ashikaga Yorikane (left) watches his bodyguard, the wrestler Narukami Katsunosuke (right) protect him from his attacker, Ukiyo Tohei on the Nihonbashi bridge (Inset: a daimyo procession leaving the city at dawn).