Vintage Gihachiro Okuyama woodblock print. Framed in a complimentary silver bamboo frame and grey mat. Yagiri-no-Watashi is one of the ferries established as ferries floating across Edo-gawa River by the Tokugawa Shogunate in the early Edo Period (1603 – 1868). It is the only human-powered ferry left in Tokyo. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Gihachiro Okuyama was born in the city of Sagae, Yamagata. In the Tohoku region, on February 17, 1907. He began as a commercial artist, creating advertising art for many different companies and establishing his own advertising company in 1931. He created successful commercial art for the Japan Wool Company and Nikka Whiskey. Okuyama studied printmaking with Gajin Kosaka beginning in 1923, as well as with noted artist Kendo Ishii, and began exhibiting prints with the Nihon Sosaku Hanga Association in 1927. During World War ll, he was a member of the Nihon Hanga Hokokai, an organization created to ensure access to production materials for hanga artists during the war. After the end of the war, he created the Nihon Hanga Kenkyusho to develop an avenue for hanga artists to publish and market their works. Print is 9″ x 4.5″. With frame, 12.75″ x 8.25″.