Catalog record · 目録番号 28426

Asakusa River - One Hundred Famous View of Edo

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
Date / 年代: 1857
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / artelino
Digital image / 画像: 610 × 900 px
Published by / 公開者: 白石カナ

Catalog note / 解説

"Meisho Edo Hyakkei" (One Hundred Famous View of Edo). "Asakusagawa, Ohkawabata, Miyakogawa" Ohyama pilgrims and a "yamabushi" (mountain ascetic) blowing a trumpet shell are on a boat decorated with a tall "bonten" (assembly of ritual paper strips). The people on the near boat are going for the absolution to purge the noxious spirits. The scenery is viewed from the under Ryogoku Bridge in the Sumida River.

Image record / 画像情報

Artelino · Original published in 1857, this one is a re-carved edition published ca. early 20th C. · artelino

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