A print from the celebrated series "Scenes of Famous Places along the Tokaido Road," depicting the fifteen wooden statues of the Ashikaga shoguns housed at the Toji-in temple in Kyoto — a site of enormous historical and spiritual significance. The Ashikaga shogunate had ruled Japan from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and their memorial statues at Toji-in were objects of both veneration and, for samurai of other loyalties, political ambiguity. Kyosai's rendering balances documentary precision with the atmospheric dignity appropriate to commemorating medieval rulers.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Images of the Fifteen Ashikaga Shoguns at the Tôji-in in Kyoto (Kyôto Tôji-in, Ashikaga jûgodai mokuzô no zu), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road, aka Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Yes — Images of the Fifteen Ashikaga Shoguns at the Tôji-in in Kyoto (Kyôto Tôji-in, Ashikaga jûgodai mokuzô no zu), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road, aka Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi is part of the Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road series by Kawanabe Kyosai.
Images of the Fifteen Ashikaga Shoguns at the Tôji-in in Kyoto (Kyôto Tôji-in, Ashikaga jûgodai mokuzô no zu), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road, aka Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi depicts transportation, tōkaidō, and travel scenes, set at Kyoto.