Senju in Musashi Province ( Bushû Senju)

Catalog note / 解説

The print represents a view of Mount Fuji from Senju, the northern suburb of Edo. The river, which rises in the Kantö Mountains, changes name over its course. In this area, some miles upstream, it was called the Arakawa River. Fuji is seen here across the Arakawa beyond rice fields in the middle ground. Although not represented in the print, the so-named Great Bridge spanned the Arakawa at Senju, where the highway to Mutsu province in the far north originated. Senju was thus a gateway to the north, with its streets full of inns, shops, restaurants, and travelers. In the foreground, on the bank of a canal leading to Arakawa, a horseman appears, leading his aging, tired horse. Momentarily he…