$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
Asakusa Scene, printed in 1962 as a stencil ([kappazuri](/glossary/kappazuri)), presents the famous downtown Tokyo district around Senso-ji Temple — the most popular tourist and entertainment district in the old shitamachi (low city) tradition — with the bustling energy and colorful detail that distinguished Mori's urban genre subjects. Asakusa, with its Nakamise shopping arcade, its theaters, street performers, food stalls, and the constant movement of crowds, provided him with exactly the kind of vivid, popular subject that his folk-art sensibility was best equipped to render. The scene captured the living tradition of Edo popular culture that survived in this district well into the modern period.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Asakusa Scene was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利) in 1962.
Asakusa Scene uses Stencil Print, on stencil print (kappazuri), ink and color on paper.
Asakusa Scene depicts urban scenes and temples & shrines, set at Asakusa.
Asakusa Scene measures 37.6 × 48.3 cm.
