True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kuramae Street, Asakusa
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
Kuramae Street in Asakusa was the commercial avenue bordering the great government rice warehouse (kuramae) that gave the district its name, a busy artery where merchants, porters, and traders moved the city's essential grain supply. Yasuji depicts the street with his characteristic attention to commercial urban life, capturing the mix of wooden shopfronts, passing pedestrians, and working architecture that made the Asakusa waterfront one of the most economically active zones of the old city. The print documents this working urban world before later development obscured its character.
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Frequently Asked Questions
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kuramae Street, Asakusa was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kuramae Street, Asakusa depicts urban scenes and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo, Asakusa.