Railway Line at Takanawa (Takanawa tetsudō no zu)

A curved stone embankment separates a pale blue-green waterway, where two small boats drift — one an open rowboat with two seated passengers, the other a canopied boat with a red-coated boatman poling three passengers under a white awning — from a raised road above lined with pine and other trees. On the road, rickshaws (one red-lacquered, pulled by a runner in red), a horse, and pedestrians carrying umbrellas and parasols move past a wooden fence, a curved-roof structure, and a dark fenced enclosure at upper right. The palette is dominated by teal and turquoise greens for the embankment grass and hillside, with black ink outlines and red accents on the boatmen's and travelers' clothing; this is the right sheet of a nishiki-e triptych by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, titled Railway Line at Takanawa (Takanawa tetsudō no zu), 1871, in ink and color on paper.