This oban-format nishiki-e from the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (c. 1857) depicts the Sumiyoshi Festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine on Tsukudajima, a small island reclaimed from the mouth of the Sumida River at Edo Bay. The triennial festival was celebrated with decorated boats conveying the shrine's portable sacred object across the surrounding water. Hiroshige renders the scene from an elevated vantage point encompassing the island's tight cluster of low buildings, the surrounding water, and the open bay beyond. Festival flags and shrine markers rise above the rooftops. The water is printed in Prussian blue with bokashi shifting from deep blue in the foreground to pale blue-grey at the horizon, suggesting the broad expanse of the bay. The irregular shoreline of Tsukudajima creates an asymmetric composition, with festive activity concentrated on the near side and open water filling the remaining picture field, conveying the island's relative smallness and isolation.
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.
Sumiyoshi Festival at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima Sumiyoshi no matsuri), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重).
Yes — Sumiyoshi Festival at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima Sumiyoshi no matsuri), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" is part of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series (print 55 of 118) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Sumiyoshi Festival at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima Sumiyoshi no matsuri), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and famous places (meisho-e).
Sumiyoshi Festival at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima Sumiyoshi no matsuri), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" measures 36.2 × 24.6 cm.
