A Picture of Prosperity at Horidome
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Chazen Museum of Art
Description
Horidome — a canal district in Nihonbashi, the mercantile heart of Tokyo — is shown in a scene of commercial bustle. Warehouses, shop fronts, and the masts of moored cargo boats crowd the composition, conveying the prosperity of a neighbourhood built on Edo-period trade networks that persisted well into the Meiji era. Kiyochika produced several prints of Tokyo's commercial districts, documenting the layering of old mercantile infrastructure with the new brick and gas-lit buildings of modernising Japan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A Picture of Prosperity at Horidome was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
A Picture of Prosperity at Horidome depicts urban scenes, boats & ships, and market scenes.