Touring Asakusa Park
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Touring Asakusa Park was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Touring Asakusa Park depicts urban scenes and temples & shrines, set at Asakusa.