True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.