Summer Horse Market | Japanese Equestrian Print shows travelers crossing the river

shows travelers crossing the river near Fuchu

agriculture

there were no horses in Japan

Original drawing of a Edo-era pack horse with traditional fittings

(1877 – 1945)

Summer Horse Market | Japanese Equestrian Print shows travelers crossing the riverThis print, called "Summer Horse Market, (c. 1832 1833, by Ando Hiroshige), shows the busy horse market at Chiryu station, one of the stops of the Tokaido, the road connecting the city of Edo (modern day Tokyo) to the imperial capital of Kyoto. In addition to the horses, of note are the pine trees, which were planted by order of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and survived until the 1959 Isewan Typhoon.