Festival — お祭り
- Date:
- 1898
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Festival" (お祭り, omatsuri, 1898) depicts the summer matsuri — one of the central communal rituals of Japanese social life, combining Shinto religious practice with commercial festivity, music, and the specific visual spectacle of festival decoration, procession, and crowd. Shuntei renders the festival scene with attention to its specific visual character: the decorated streets and shrine gates, the portable shrine or festival parade, the gathered community in festival dress. The omatsuri was one of the year's most visually rich occasions and a natural subject for a printmaker interested in social life.
More Prints by Miyagawa Shuntei
More Summer Prints
Bull Festival at Koryuji
広隆寺牛祭
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February (The Annual Festival of the Fushimi Inari)
二月 (伏見稲荷大社祭)
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July (Gorgeous Procession of Yama-hoko or the Floats at the Gion Festival)
七月 (祇園祭山鉾巡行)
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August (The Bonfire Festival of the Daimonji Hill Viewed from the Sanjo Bridge)
八月 (三条大橋より大文字)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Festival — お祭り was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1898.
Festival — お祭り depicts summer.