The Buddhist temple Asakusa Kinryuzan

Object Details

• Block carver

  Utagawa Hiroshige II 歌川広重 二世 (1826-1869)

• Label

  The Buddhist temple Kinryuzan is still a favorite site for visitors. During the nineteenth century its thriving marketplace attracted many visitors in the spring and autumn when the weather was most pleasant. Here among many Japanese visitors, the artist has focused in the foreground on a group of Western men and a Chinese assistant, the type of group that would be seen in Yokohama prints. Since excursions to Edo from nearby Yokohama were restricted at the time when this print was published, this scene is likely to have been imaginatively constructed by the artist.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Bequest of Florence Leonhart

• Type

  Print

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• Name

  Utagawa, Hiroshige II

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Temple, Cherry tree, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ukiyo-e, Triptych, Cherry blossom

• Culture

  Buddhists, Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints