Explore works by one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape print, Utagawa Hiroshige.
Travellers rush to take shelter from a rainstorm at the post village of Futagawa. Perhaps they are on their way to see the ‘Husband and Wife Stone’, a local landmark mentioned in the poem.
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