This oban-format nishiki-e from the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (c. 1856) presents a broad view of the Sumida River north of central Edo, looking toward the Suijin Shrine grove and the Massaki district on the far bank. The foreground presents the river surface rendered in layered applications of Prussian blue (bero-ai) with bokashi gradation from deeper tones at the lower margin to a pale, hazy horizon. Small flat-bottomed craft—ferries and pleasure boats—are distributed across the river midground, their passengers reduced to silhouettes. The dense tree canopy surrounding the Suijin Shrine occupies the middle distance on the opposite bank, printed in gradated green against dark ink. The wide horizontal composition emphasizes the scale of the Sumida as Edo's principal commercial and ceremonial waterway. Hiroshige's treatment of the far bank as atmospheric silhouette against a luminous sky is a recurring strategy in the Meisho Edo hyakkei river-view subjects.
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.
Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重).
Yes — Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" is part of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series (print 35 of 118) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and temples & shrines.
Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" measures 34 × 22.2 cm.
