Shokubutsu-en / Botanical Gardens / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo

Date:: 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)
Medium:: Woodblock print
Source:: British Museum

Description

The Botanical Gardens (Shokubutsu-en) of Tokyo — one of the Meiji period's investments in Western-style scientific and educational institutions — is depicted in the 1893 "Famous Places in Tokyo" series. Shuntei renders this modern institutional garden with the same topographic attention he brought to traditional historic gardens, treating the Western-influenced botanical garden as worthy of the meisho-e (famous places) documentary tradition. The botanical garden's combination of scientific and recreational functions made it a characteristic Meiji institution.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Shokubutsu-en / Botanical Gardens / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published).

Shokubutsu-en / Botanical Gardens / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo depicts gardens, set at Tokyo.