The Hall of Thirty-Three Bays at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Sanjusangendo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

The Fukagawa Sanjusangendo was an Edo-period replica of Kyoto's celebrated Sanjusangendo, erected in the Fukagawa district and best known as a venue for the tōshiya, a ceremonial archery competition in which participants shot arrows the full length of the thirty-three-bay veranda. Hiroshige included the site in his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), published between 1856 and 1858 by Uoya Eikichi. The vertical oban format Hiroshige employed throughout the series would frame the extended hall structure—its length emphasized by recession—against a sky rendered in graduated bokashi. The series belongs to the final phase of Hiroshige's career, completed in the two years before his death from cholera in 1858, during which his compositional inventiveness reached its most concentrated expression. The architectural subject, rare in a series dominated by seasonal landscape and urban genre views, reflects the range of Edo sites Hiroshige documented across the one hundred prints.