Asakusa Temple — 浅草寺

This print depicts Sensoji, the ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa that served as one of Nouët's recurring subjects throughout his Tokyo years. The composition likely centers on the Nakamise-dori approach or the main hall precincts, rendered with the atmospheric sensitivity Nouët developed from his European training. Working within the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) tradition of collaborative printmaking, Nouët would have supplied the original design to skilled carvers and printers who executed the multiple woodblocks. Characteristic of his urban landscape work, the print probably employs graduated [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) washes to suggest sky and depth, with architectural elements — the sweeping irimoya roofline, lanterns, or the Kaminarimon gate — anchoring the composition. Nouët's Franco-Japanese perspective gives the image a quality distinct from native practitioners: attentive to mass and atmospheric light in ways that recall his Parisian academic formation while remaining faithful to Japanese printmaking conventions.