Asakusa Rice Field during the Cock Festival

This print, associated with the Tori no Ichi festival held at Otori Shrine in Asakusa each November, depicts the broad rice paddies north of the shrine complex at dusk or night during the festival. Hiroshige's famous version from the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series (1857) uses a high vantage point to look across stubbled rice fields toward the illuminated lanterns and crowds gathering for the market fair where rakes (kumade) are sold as talismans for raking in good fortune. The night sky transitions through a deep bokashi from dark indigo at the top to the warm glow of lantern light below, a technical challenge requiring precise registration across multiple printing blocks. Figures proceeding along an embankment path create a procession that organizes the middle distance, while the cropped foreground plants frame the scene below the viewer's feet. The print captures the seasonal rhythm of Edo life—agricultural, commercial, and devotional—within a single twilight composition.