True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Evening View of Asakusa Park
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
The evening view of Asakusa Park — the great public pleasure ground surrounding Senso-ji temple — captures the transition between the fading daylight and the lanterns and electric lights that were beginning to illuminate Meiji Tokyo's entertainment districts. Asakusa was the liveliest neighborhood in the city, and its park at evening drew crowds seeking theater, food, fortune-tellers, and the thousand small diversions of the urban pleasure world. Yasuji renders this atmosphere with the clear, observational style that makes his work an invaluable record of Meiji everyday life.
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Frequently Asked Questions
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Evening View of Asakusa Park was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Evening View of Asakusa Park depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo, Asakusa.