
Toeizan Temple Seen from Shinobazu Benten Shrine in Edo (Edo Shinobazu Benten yori Toeizan o miru zu), from a series of famous places in Edo with frames of Western letters
by Keisai Eisen
- Date:
- c.1830
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; nishiki-e
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A wide horizontal view over a lake dotted with small teal marks (lotus leaves), with a single boat and two fishing poles or stakes standing in the water in the foreground. Low wooded shorelines in blue-green frame the scene, with clusters of thatched and tiled-roof buildings on stilts or piers at the water's edge, a small arched bridge, and tiny figures walking along the shore; a temple building with a pointed thatched roof rises among the trees at left-center. The palette is dominated by indigo blue and soft teal-green with cream-toned sky and a dark blue gradient band along the top edge; vertical text cartouches with the title appear in the upper left corner. Color woodblock print (nishiki-e) by Keisai Eisen, 1825, titled *Toeizan Temple Seen from Shinobazu Benten Shrine in Edo (Edo Shinobazu Benten yori Toeizan o miru zu)*, from a series of Edo views set within frames of Western letters.
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Toeizan Temple Seen from Shinobazu Benten Shrine in Edo (Edo Shinobazu Benten yori Toeizan o miru zu), from a series of famous places in Edo with frames of Western letters was created by Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) in c.1830.