Famous Views of Tokyo: The Kinryuzan Sensoji Temple
Description
A print from the Famous Views of Tokyo series depicting Kinryuzan Sensoji Temple in Asakusa — the great Buddhist temple complex that had been Tokyo's most popular religious destination since the Edo period. Sensoji's survival into the Meiji era as a major landmark while so much else changed around it spoke to the temple's deep roots in popular religious practice and its function as a social institution as much as a purely religious one. Chikanobu's rendering combines topographic accuracy with the atmospheric grandeur appropriate to the city's most ancient major temple.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Famous Views of Tokyo: The Kinryuzan Sensoji Temple was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Famous Views of Tokyo: The Kinryuzan Sensoji Temple depicts landscapes and temples & shrines, set at Tokyo.