Spring dusk at Tôshô shrine, Ueno

Ueno Tōshō-gū, founded in 1627 and dedicated to the deified first Tokugawa shogun Ieyasu, stands within Ueno Park in central Tokyo and is best known for its gilded karamon gate and a long avenue of stone and bronze lanterns. A spring-dusk subject combines two of Hasui's most-worked registers: the seasonal frame of cherry blossom that surrounds the shrine in early April, and the low-light moment between sunset and full night that he handled through layered bokashi printings. Compositions of this kind typically rely on the silhouetted outline of the shrine architecture and lantern row against a graduated sky, with the cherry colour reduced to a pale, almost grey pink to maintain the dusk register rather than a daylight reading. The print belongs to Hasui's extended Tokyo cycle, in which he documented the city's shrines, parks, and waterways in the years before and after the 1923 Kanto earthquake — a body of work that records both surviving Edo-period sites and their reconstructed successors.