Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), made by Kishio Koizumi in 1935, belongs to his [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) series One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga). The print, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, depicts the celebrated 'Star-Falling Pine' (hoshifuri matsu) on the precinct of Zen'yoji, a temple in what was then Edogawa ward in the northeastern outskirts of Tokyo. Koizumi gives the venerable tree pride of place, its broad horizontal crown spreading low over the temple grounds, supported by long timber props characteristic of carefully tended sacred pines. The temple buildings nestle quietly behind the canopy, while the foreground opens to a path along which a small figure walks. As a sosaku-hanga artist, Koizumi designed, cut, and printed the work himself, and the relatively subdued register — muted greens of the needles, ochres of the supports, and a soft pale sky — is consistent with the project's overall restraint. The choice of a famously named pine is itself characteristic of One Hundred Views of New Tokyo: across the cycle Koizumi repeatedly singled out individual trees, gardens, gates, and bridges that anchored a neighborhood's identity, treating the modern city as a constellation of locally significant landmarks rather than a single skyline. In this view, the survival of an ancient pine within an outer Tokyo ward becomes both a botanical portrait and a meditation on the layered continuity between Edo's temple geography and Showa-era municipal expansion.
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
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男) in 1935.
Yes — Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" is part of the One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era series by Kishio Koizumi.
Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo.