An Accurate Depiction of the Garden of Yasukuni Shrine at the Top of Kudanzaka Slope (Kudanzaka jô Yasukuni jinja teinai shinzu)

An Accurate Depiction of the Garden of Yasukuni Shrine at the Top of Kudanzaka Slope is a panoramic [triptych](/glossary/triptych) by Inoue Yasuji that records the precincts of Yasukuni Jinja above the Kudanzaka slope in Tokyo. Founded in 1869 as Tokyo Shokonsha and renamed Yasukuni in 1879, the shrine was a new institution of the Meiji state, dedicated to the spirits of those who died for the imperial cause; documenting its grounds was therefore a politically resonant act, and the word shinzu (accurate depiction) in the title insists on a documentary mode rather than an idealized one. Inoue Yasuji organizes the composition around the great torii and the broad central avenue, with the shrine's main buildings, lanterns, and visiting crowds arranged in deep perspectival recession typical of his kosen-ga training under Kobayashi Kiyochika. Subtle [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) work in the sky and the foliage softens the otherwise architectural rigor, aligning the print with the calmer atmospheric mode of his Tokyo Famous Places sheets. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston preserves this impression, where it is studied as both a Meiji-print cityscape and a visual record of how the new shrine was presented to popular audiences. For researchers tracing Inoue Yasuji's role at the intersection of kosen-ga technique and Meiji civic iconography, the sheet is a key example of how he could place a freshly invented sacred space inside the established meisho tradition without sacrificing topographical clarity.