

A print depicting visitors touring Asakusa Park — the great popular entertainment district of Tokyo where the Sensoji temple served as the anchor for a commercial and recreational landscape of extraordinary density and variety. The park's combination of religious site, theaters, stalls, restaurants, and novelty attractions made "touring Asakusa" a quintessential Tokyo experience, and Chikanobu's documentation of visitors navigating this space captures the democratic vitality of Meiji Tokyo's most beloved pleasure district.
Meiji period, dated October 10, 1896
Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper
Woodblock print

Woodblock print

Woodblock print

Woodblock print

1928
Color lithograph

1930
Color lithograph

1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Touring Asakusa Park was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Touring Asakusa Park depicts urban scenes and temples & shrines, set at Asakusa.