print
- Museum number
- 1948,0508,0.8
- Title
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Object: Asakusa Kinryuzan 浅草 金竜山 (Kinryuzan in Asakusa)
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Series: Meisho Edo hyakkei 名所江戸百景 (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)
- Description
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Woodblock print. View through gateway to Kannon Hall of Kinryuzan (Sensoji or Asakusa-dera) at Asakusa, in winter. No. 99 in series. 1 of 2 impressions.
- Production date
- 1857
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- Curator's comments
- A particular feature of Hiroshige's last great series of views of Edo is the use of conspicuously large foreground elements in the composition, here the great lantern hanging in the Thunder God gate of Senso-ji Temple.
(label copy, TTC, 1998)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 Nov 28-2008 Jan 20, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 'Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected'
2008 Mar 8-Apr 26, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK, 'Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected'
2008 Oct-2009 Feb, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to present'
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1948,0508,0.8