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The pyramid shaped hills in the background of this print are those of the boiling houses and salt piles of Gyôtoku’s salt industry. A ferry boat, or watashi-bune, carries passengers in the foreground of this picture.  In this print a shipman steers using the large rudder located in the back of the boat.
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese (culture or style))
Eight Views of Edo Suburbs: Fishing Boats Returning to Gyôtoku
1835 – 1842
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.138
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