The Kaminarimon at the Kanseon Temple in Asakusa, from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

This ōban color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunitsuna I, dated to the ninth month of 1853 and held by the Chazen Museum of Art (accession number OBJ8780), depicts the Kaminarimon — the celebrated 'Thunder Gate' — at the Sensōji temple (here referred to by its Buddhist designation as the Kanseon Temple, after Kannon Bosatsu, the bodhisattva of compassion to whom the temple is dedicated) at Asakusa, from the series Edo meisho (Famous Places in Edo). The Kaminarimon and its enormous red paper lantern are among the most recognizable urban monuments in Japanese visual culture, marking the southern entrance to the long Nakamise approach that leads to the main hall of Sensōji.