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This print is the first in the Tsutaya Kichizō edition of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road and depicts Nihonbashi Bridge in Edo, which the traveler would cross on the way to the first station at Shinagawa.
This is an identity card, known as a cedula, that was issued for a Chinese settler named Lucas. At the time that this cedula was assigned to Lucas, he was 29 years old, and in the process of completing his eight year contract as an indentured servant. The names of two of his past landlords and his current one were listed on the cedula. Originally, when he arrived in Cuba, his contract had been transferred to M. B. Pereda who then transferred the contract to Juan Peyra. Jose M. Criado was Lucas's present owner at the time that this cedula was issued. Havana, 1865.