#19, Fall Festival at Yasukuni Shrine
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- The Art of Japan
Number 19 in the One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo series records the autumn festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Kudan, Chiyoda. The shrine's festivals drew large crowds to its broad approach and inner precincts, and Koizumi's composition likely captures the lantern-lit atmosphere of the Mitama Matsuri or autumn reitaisai among the shrine's cryptomeria-lined paths. As a self-carving and self-printing artist working in the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) tradition, Koizumi would have controlled every tonal gradation in the rendering of night light against the wooden structures. The festival subject allowed him to balance architectural forms — the distinctive torii and haiden — against the movement and color of celebrants, contrasting static sacred geometry with festive human activity characteristic of [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) subject matter.
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
![Kiba Lumberyard along the River at Fukugawa (New Edition) [Fukagawa-ku, kiba no kawasuji (shinpan)], from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" by Kishio Koizumi](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/f6380c15-6d23-c26a-899d-08ead4db792b/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1940
Color woodblock print; oban
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
#19, Fall Festival at Yasukuni Shrine was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
#19, Fall Festival at Yasukuni Shrine depicts temples & shrines.