True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
A morning view of the Ayasegawa River — one of the rivers threading through the eastern agricultural lowlands beyond Edo's urban margin — captures the quiet hour before activity on the waterway begins. Yasuji's composition places the viewer on the bank looking across the wide flat landscape, the river's surface catching the morning light amid fields and distant tree lines. The print documents one of the landscape views accessible from the city's northeastern edges, where urban Tokyo gave way to the rice paddies and market gardens that fed the metropolitan population.
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Frequently Asked Questions
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes, set at Tokyo.