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.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
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.
