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Title: Chiryu: Early Summer Horse Fair/ 池鯉鮒首夏馬市 (Chiryu, shuka uma ichi)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. As mentioned in the title, the horse fair is depicted. Horses, owners, and buyers stand amongst the green-yellow grass along the road. Father back under the tall tree in the center of the composition, a crowd of horse brokers gathers. The archive print is the second version of two that exist. This print does not include the background mountain present in the first version.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Horses -- Japan -- Art; Fairs -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0052
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100722

Title: City Market in Freetown, Sierra Leone, c. 1967-1969
Date: 1967-1969
Creator: Fretz, Phil
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Exterior view of the City Market in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A white car is parked outside.
Subject: Fairs -- Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0020
Type: photographs
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: The Year-end Fair at Asakusa/ 浅草年之市
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A young couple sits on the second-floor veranda of a teahouse taking up the whole right side of the composition. The man sits at the back with a cup in his hand while his female companion looks over the railing at the festivities. To the left is the busy street bellow filled with people. The event depicted is the Asakusa Year End fair that occurred in the twelfth month of the lunar year starting on the 14th and continuing until New Year’s Eve. People visited the fair to buy various goods such as Shimekazari (sacred straw festoons), home altars, and traditional New Year's foods. The fair still occurs today at Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Couples -- Japan -- Art; Fairs -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0023
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100978