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Wooden cuts of vertical format by Hiroshige on cardboard with motifs of a river landscape. In the background, mountains dry up and on the shore closest to the viewer stand almost naked men, prepared to freeze over what appears to be a couple of samurai in a kind of carrying chairs. A text panel in the upper right and signature within the panel in the lower right corner. Two stamps outside the picture, on the paper. Colors: orange, blue in three shades, green, black, yellow, red.
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Title: woodcut, ukiyo-e
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Wooden cuts of vertical format by Hiroshige on cardboard with motifs of a river landscape.
In the background, mountains dry up and on the shore closest to the viewer stand almost naked men, prepared to freeze over what appears to be a couple of samurai in a kind of carrying chairs.
A text panel in the upper right and signature within the panel in the lower right corner.
Two stamps outside the picture, on the paper.
Colors: orange, blue in three shades, green, black, yellow, red.

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