The Kiyomizu Temple in Ueno

This second impression of the Kiyomizu Temple in Ueno presents a variant treatment of the Kiyomizu Kannon-dō in Ueno Park, distinguished from the companion impression by season, palette, or compositional framing. The temple's architectural drama—its projecting stage supported on wooden stilts above the hillside slope, the crimson lacquerwork of its structural elements contrasting with surrounding foliage—remained consistent as the central subject, but Hasui returned to favored sites across different seasons and light conditions, following the meisho-e tradition of establishing a location's identity through multiple depictions. A spring reading would place cherry blossom in the foreground or background; a winter or autumn version would exploit the stripped seasonal landscape for tonal contrast. Differences between the two impressions in this pairing would be most apparent in the handling of surrounding vegetation, the sky tonality, and the specific palette of the architectural lacquerwork. Watanabe Shōzaburō's workshop produced multiple print runs of popular subjects, and minor technical variations between runs are documented across the Hasui catalog.