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.
Meiji period, dated October 10, 1896
Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
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.
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.