• Hashiba Ferry in Snow (<i>Hashiba setchū</i> - 橋場雪中) from the series <i>The Pride of Edo</i> (江戸自慢): <i>Thirty-six Scenes</i> (<i>Edo jiman sanjū rokkei</i> - 三十六興)
Hashiba Ferry in Snow (<i>Hashiba setchū</i> - 橋場雪中) from the series <i>The Pride of Edo</i> (江戸自慢): <i>Thirty-six Scenes</i> (<i>Edo jiman sanjū rokkei</i> - 三十六興)
Hashiba Ferry in Snow (<i>Hashiba setchū</i> - 橋場雪中) from the series <i>The Pride of Edo</i> (江戸自慢): <i>Thirty-six Scenes</i> (<i>Edo jiman sanjū rokkei</i> - 三十六興)
Hashiba Ferry in Snow (<i>Hashiba setchū</i> - 橋場雪中) from the series <i>The Pride of Edo</i> (江戸自慢): <i>Thirty-six Scenes</i> (<i>Edo jiman sanjū rokkei</i> - 三十六興)
Hashiba Ferry in Snow (<i>Hashiba setchū</i> - 橋場雪中) from the series <i>The Pride of Edo</i> (江戸自慢): <i>Thirty-six Scenes</i> (<i>Edo jiman sanjū rokkei</i> - 三十六興)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Utagawa Hiroshige II (二代目歌川広重) (artist late 1820s - late 1860s)

Hashiba Ferry in Snow (Hashiba setchū - 橋場雪中) from the series The Pride of Edo (江戸自慢): Thirty-six Scenes (Edo jiman sanjū rokkei - 三十六興)

Print

07/1864
9.5 in x 14 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signatures: Kiō Toyokuni ga
(old man Toyokuni drew this picture - 喜翁豊国画)
Hiroshige hitsu (廣重筆)
Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzō (Marks 114 - seal 25-535)
Carver: Ōta Komakichi
Seals: 7/1864 and aratame
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Tokyo Metropolitan Library
Chazen Museum of Art
National Diet Library
Google maps - the Hashiba area of modern Tokyo
Adachi Museum of Art
Lyon Collection - compare this 1864 print to only solely by Kunisada in the 1840s
Royal Ontario Museum
Yale University Art Gallery
National Museum, Warsaw (via Europeana)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie This print is a cooperative effort between Hiroshige II and Toyokuni III, in the year before he died. It shows a boatman ferrying two women across a river near the Asakusa district in winter.

Why are the women crossing the river? Are they returning from the Mimeguri shrine area on the eastern side of the river? Are they going to the Jizō shrine to pray for the birth of a child, a print memorialized in an 1833 print by Kuniyoshi?

If that building is on the Asakusa side then it is not far from the roof tile kilns made famous in a print by Hiroshige I in 1858 in his series '100 Famous Vies of Edo.'

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There are at least two prints in the Lyon Collection published by Hiranoya Shinzō. See also #748.

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There is another copy of this print in the Adachi Ward Museum (足立 区立郷土博物館所蔵) in Tokyo.

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Illustrated in color reproduction in Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680-1900 by Andreas Marks, Tuttle Publishing, 2010, page 309.
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)
Hiranoya Shinzō (平野屋新蔵) (publisher)