Azumabashi kinryūzan enbō – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Azumabashi kinryūzan enbō
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Few views in the series have a more recognizable setting than this one, which pairs the Azumabashi bridge over the Sumida River with the great gate and roofs of Kinryūzan, the temple better known as Sensō-ji in Asakusa. Utagawa Hiroshige made this color woodcut in 1857, near the end of his life, for *One Hundred Famous Views of Edo*, a series that turned the city's bridges, temples, and waterways into everyday scenery for townspeople. The catalog record also tags Mount Fuji as a subject, a reminder that Edo artists often placed the distant mountain into views of the city. The print's vertical format and layered color show how far the genre had come by the late 1850s.
| Created / published | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 35.5 x 23.6 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : One hundred famous views of Edo. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 32, p. 68. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Cities & towns--Japan--1850-1860. Fuji, Mount (Japan)--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,612 × 4,468 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221872 |
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