Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Atago Hill
東京名所四十八景 愛宕やま
by Shōsai Ikkei
- Date:
- c. 1871
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Source:
- Edo-Tokyo Museum
東京名所四十八景 愛宕やま
by Shōsai Ikkei
This view of Atago Hill, from Ikkei's 'Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo' series of around 1871, depicts one of central Tokyo's principal natural landmarks — a low forested hill in the Shiba district topped by Atago Shrine, dedicated to the fire-prevention deity Atago Gongen and reached by a famously steep flight of stone steps known as the 'Men's Slope' (Otoko-zaka). Atago Hill had been a meisho destination throughout the Edo period, valued for its sweeping views of the city and Tokyo Bay from the shrine precinct at its summit and for the steep stone staircase that pilgrims and visitors climbed to reach it. Ikkei renders the hill as a substantial green mass in the middle distance, with the steps and shrine architecture rising from a foreground of teahouses and visitors, and a wide blue-sky reserve above. The print belongs to the Edo-Tokyo Museum's collection of the series and documents the appearance of one of the most beloved minor landmarks of central Tokyo at the moment when the surrounding Shiba district was being gradually transformed by the new Meiji government's reorganization of the former Tokugawa shogunal precincts.
東京名所四十八景 洲崎乃汐干
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
東京名所四十八景 築地ホテル
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
錦絵三枚続
c. 1870
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
東京名所四十八景 両国乃花火
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Atago Hill (東京名所四十八景 愛宕やま) was created by Shōsai Ikkei (昇斎一景) in c. 1871.
Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Atago Hill depicts landscapes.