Kanda Myojin / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo
- Date:
- 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- British Museum
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Kanda Myojin — one of Tokyo's most important and historically significant Shinto shrines, associated with the founding of Edo and the patronage of commerce and the arts — is depicted in the 1893 "Famous Places in Tokyo" series. The shrine's distinctive architecture, its position in the commercial district of Kanda, and its association with Edo's popular cultural life made it a natural subject for the famous-places tradition. Shuntei renders the shrine's specific architectural character with the observational precision appropriate to a sacred site with centuries of cultural accumulation.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Kanda Myojin / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published).
Kanda Myojin / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo depicts urban scenes, set at Tokyo.
