True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of Tsukiji-monzeki Temple
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
Tsukiji-monzeki Temple — the great Jodo sect monastery in the Tsukiji district near Tokyo Bay — is seen here from a distance that allows Yasuji to situate it within the broader urban and maritime landscape. The monzeki designation indicated a temple headed by imperial family members, giving the institution exceptional prestige. By the Meiji period its extensive grounds were being reduced by new government policies separating Buddhism from the state, and Yasuji's view documents the temple's physical presence at this moment of institutional contraction.
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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of Tsukiji-monzeki Temple was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of Tsukiji-monzeki Temple depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo.