True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Common views: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
The Toshogu Shrine at Ueno — the elaborate Edo-period mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the shogunate — is depicted here within the Ueno Park setting that surrounded it, its gold-lacquered architecture visible among the trees of the former Kanei-ji temple compound. The shrine's survival within the new Meiji public park made it an anomalous presence: a monument to the feudal lord whom the Meiji Restoration had displaced, preserved even as the political order he founded was being dismantled. Yasuji documents its physical splendor without apparent irony.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno depicts urban scenes and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo, Ueno.