Precincts of the Hachiman Shrine at Fukagawa, 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 at the University of Wisconsin (accession number OBJ8779), depicts the precincts of the Hachiman Shrine at Fukagawa — the great Tomioka Hachimangū in the eastern Fukagawa district of Edo — from the series Edo meisho (Famous Places in Edo). The Tomioka Hachimangū, founded in 1627 on reclaimed land east of the Sumida River, was the principal shrine of the Fukagawa quarter and one of the busiest pilgrimage and festival destinations in the city. Its sandō (approach path), great stone torii, main hall, and sumo dohyō (the shrine's celebrated sumo grounds, where the modern professional tournaments traced their origins) made it a recurring subject for [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) designers throughout the nineteenth century.