Tokyo (東京)

255 prints by 53 artists

About Tokyo

Tokyo, the present-day capital of Japan, occupies the alluvial plain at the mouth of the Sumida River on the western shore of Tokyo Bay, in the Kanto region of central Honshu. From its founding as the Tokugawa shogunal seat in 1603 the city was known as Edo, and the present name Tokyo, written with characters meaning eastern capital, was adopted only after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when the emperor relocated from Kyoto and the city was redesignated as the political center of a newly modernizing state. For Japanese printmaking the city is foundational. The ukiyo-e tradition itself emerged in the pleasure quarters and theaters of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Edo, with publishers concentrated in the Nihonbashi district producing the bijinga, yakusha-e, and meisho-e that defined the school. Hishikawa Moronobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Torii Kiyonaga, Kitagawa Utamaro, Toshusai Sharaku, Katsushika Hokusai, and Utagawa Hiroshige all worked within the network of Edo publishers, carvers, and printers, including Tsutaya Juzaburo, Nishimuraya Yohachi, Iseya Sanjiro, and Uoya Eikichi, that gave the city its primary association with the woodblock medium. The meisho-e tradition for Edo is anchored by Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei, 1856-1858), a 119-sheet vertical-format series issued by Uoya Eikichi in which districts as varied as Yoshiwara, Atake, Suruga-cho, Asakusa, Mannen Bridge, Surugadai, and the seasonal phenomena of cherry blossom and snowfall received individual sheets, and by his earlier Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho) series of the late 1830s, his Eight Views of Edo, and his Edo Suburb Names. Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1830-1832) included Edo locations such as Nihonbashi, Surugadai, Senju, and the Mannen Bridge from which the distant mountain could be observed, embedding the city into the iconography of the great volcano. Tomioka Eisen, Kitao Shigemasa, and other later eighteenth-century artists produced bijin-e set in specific Edo neighborhoods, and the Utagawa school under Toyokuni I, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi produced extensive theatrical, historical, and meisho prints anchored in the city. After the renaming to Tokyo, the Meiji-period kaika-e (enlightenment pictures) of artists including Utagawa Hiroshige III, Hashimoto Chikanobu, Inoue Yasuji, and Kobayashi Kiyochika recorded the city's transformation under gas lamps, brick buildings, horse-drawn streetcars, and rail lines, and the shin-hanga revival of the 1910s through 1930s returned to the metropolis in series such as Kawase Hasui's Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei, begun 1925) and Souvenirs of Travel (Tabi miyage), Yoshida Hiroshi's discrete Tokyo subjects, and Tsuchiya Koitsu's evening and night views. The sosaku-hanga response was equally consequential. The 1928-1932 collaborative project One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei), coordinated by Onchi Koshiro and Nakajima Jutaro and drawing on eight creative-print artists including Onchi, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Kawakami Sumio, and Fujimori Shizuo, made the rebuilt post-earthquake city its primary subject and remains one of the central statements of late-Taisho and early-Showa printmaking. The visual character of Tokyo across these centuries is bound up with specific recurring motifs, including the curving span of Nihonbashi at the city's mercantile heart, the Sumida and its bridges, the gates and lanterns of Asakusa, the pond of Shinobazu beneath Ueno hill, the Akasaka and Marunouchi government quarters, the Yoshiwara quarter north of Asakusa, and after 1923 the new boulevards, ferroconcrete office blocks, and elevated railways of the reconstructed metropolis. Specific districts treated in this database under their own entries include Asakusa, Ginza, Nihonbashi, Shiba, Shinobazu Pond, Ueno, Yanaka, and the Sumida River, each contributing to the larger Edo and Tokyo iconography. Modern visitors find the historical neighborhoods of Asakusa, Yanaka, Nihonbashi, and Ueno still legible in fragments preserved between layers of postwar redevelopment, and the major print collections of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Harajuku, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno, and the Sumida Hokusai Museum hold the canonical impressions of the prints that shaped how the world has seen this city.

Prints Depicting Tokyo (255)

'Modern Edo Purple'

1862

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Eisen's Blue-Printed Pictures (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Eisen no Aizuri-e)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Harunobu's Bathtub (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Harunobu no Furo)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Hokusai's Waterfalls (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Hokusai no Taki)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kuniyoshi's Cats (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kuniyoshi no neko)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Utamaro's Erotica (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Utamaro no Shunga)

Woodblock print

A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Yoshitoshi's Ghosts (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Yoshitoshi no Bakemono)

Woodblock print

Act Five from the series Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura: Go danme), Late Edo period, circa 1801-1802

Woodblock print

After the Bath (Tokyo) / Nihon jozoku sen (Woman's Customs in Japan)

Woodblock print

Akasaka Palace, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1929

Color woodblock print

Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1928

Color woodblock print; oban

Annual Edo Customs: Seventh Month, Tanabata Festival at Sujikai Mitsuke Crossroads

Woodblock print

Annual Edo Customs: Tenth Month, Prosperous Merchants Worship the God of Wealth

Woodblock print

April 10, Meiji 31: 30th. Anniversary Celebration of the Changing Name from Edo to Tokyo

Woodblock print

Asakusa Kannon Hall, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Asakusa rokku (Sixth District of Asakusa) / Shin Tokyo hyakkei (One Hundred New Views of Tokyo, No. 67)

Woodblock print

Autumn Color along the Moat at Hanzo Gate (Hanzomon go-horihata no aki iro), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1934

Color woodblock print; oban

Benkeibashi Bridge, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Black night-Ginza (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Building of Tokyo Daily Newspaper, Ginza, Tokyo, 1876

Woodblock print

C9- Night scene of Mabashi, near Tokyo

Woodblock print

Catching Goldfish (Kingyo sukui), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo jûnidai), Shôwa period, dated 1928

Shôwa period, 1926-1989

Woodblock print

Cemetery at Sengakuji, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Cherry Blossoms at Koganei, Outskirts of Tokyo

Woodblock print

Clearing after a Snowfall at the Kannon Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon no yukibare), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1926

Color woodblock print; oban

Complete View of a Courtesan House in Tokyo

1870, 3rd lunar month

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Dainichidô Shrine of Kobinata, Tokyo, Taishô period, dated 1916

Woodblock print

Diary: Nov. 24th '98, in Ueno Park (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Dipping for Goldfish, Tokyo, from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo"

1928

Color woodblock print on silk

Dusk at the Kiba Lumber Yards (Kiba no yugure), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

1920

Color woodblock print; oban

Early Spring in the Suburbs (Soshun kogai), from the series "New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei)"

1925

Color woodblock print

Edo Firemen Demonstrating Ladder-climbing During Festival

19th century

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Edo Meisho

Woodblock print

Edo No Hana (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Environs of the Mitsukoshi Department Store, from the series One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei), Shôwa period, dated 1931

Shôwa period, 1926-1989

Woodblock print

Evening at Ueno Park

上野公園の夕

1934

Woodblock print

Evening Snow at Edo River (Kure no yuki [Edogawa])

1932

Color woodblock print; oban

Evening Snow at Sanjūgen Canal (Sanjūgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tōkyō jūnikagetsu)

1920

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo

1932

Woodblock print

Evening Snow at Terajima Village (Yuki ni fururu Terajima mura), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

1920

Color woodblock print

Evening Twilight at Haneda Airport (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Famous places in Tokyo, Takanawa: Picture of . Complete picture of a steam locomotive and railroad

1871, 9th lunar month

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Famous Views of Tokyo: Cherry Blossoms in Mukojima

Woodblock print

Famous Views of Tokyo: First National Bank of Japan

Woodblock print

Famous Views of Tokyo: The Kinryuzan Sensoji Temple

Woodblock print

Fashionable Places in Edo

1785-1787

Ferry at Odai, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Ferry at Odai, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Ferry in Snow at Akabane, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Ferry in Snow at Akabane, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Ginza at Night, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Ginza Fantasy (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Great Lantern at Asakusa Kannon Temple

浅草観音堂大提灯

1934

Color woodblock print

Hakuho Castle, Ueno, Iga (Iga Ueno Hakuhojo)

Iga Ueno Hakuhojo

1951

Color woodblock print

Hirakawa Gate, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Hiratsuka Shrine, Tokyo

1933

Woodblock print

Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1935

Color woodblock print; oban

Hour of the Tiger (Tora no koku = 4 AM) from the series Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seirô jûni toki tsuzuki), Late Edo period, circa 1794

Woodblock print

Industrial District in Honjo, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Inside the Hogaku Theater (Hogakuza naikei), from the series "New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei)"

1929

Color woodblock print

Iris Garden at Horikiri (Horikiri no shôbu), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo jûnidai), Shôwa period, dated 1928

Shôwa period, 1926-1989

Woodblock print

Kameido Bridge (Kameido), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Kameido

1927

Color woodblock print

Kameido Bridge, Tokyo

1927

Color woodblock print

Kami(no) Bridge, Fukagawa, from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo" (Tokyo junidai, Kaminohashi)

Summer 1920

Color woodblock print

Kanda Myojin / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

Woodblock print

Kanda Myojin Shrine Precent, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Kanda Myojin keidai)

1926

Color woodblock print

Kandagawa, Inokashira (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Kannon Temple (Kannon), from the series Dutch-style Pictures: Eight Views of Edo (Oranda gakyo Edo hakkei)

Woodblock print

Kasumigaseki, from the series "Famous Places in Edo (Koto meisho)"

c. 1832/34

Color woodblock print; oban

Kiba Lumberyard along the River at Fukugawa (New Edition) [Fukagawa-ku, kiba no kawasuji (shinpan)], from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1940

Color woodblock print; oban

Kikyo Gate (Kikyomon), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

Kikyomon

1929

Color woodblock print; oban

Kiyomizu Hall, Ueno, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Ueno Kiyomizudo)

1928

Color woodblock print

Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Komagatagashi

1919

Color woodblock print; oban

Komagata-do (Komagata Hall) / Tokyo meisho zue (Famous Places in Tokyo)

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

Woodblock print

Koraku-en / Koraku-en Park / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

Woodblock print

Kuromon Gate, from the series "One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei)"

1930

Color woodblock print

Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)"

1916

Lithograph on paper

Landscape, from set of views of Tokyo scenery entitled Tokyo fûkei hangashû

Woodblock print

Late Snow Along Edo River

1932

Woodblock print

Le Miroir de Laque Rouge. Tokyo (The Red Lacquer Mirror. Tokyo) 19/150

1938

Woodblock print

Marunouch Tokyo

Woodblock print

Matchiyama / Tokyo meisho zue (Famous Places in Tokyo)

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

Woodblock print

Matsudo Bank of Edo River — 江戸川松戸岸

Woodblock print

Misty Evening at Shinobazu Pond

Woodblock print

Misty Evening on the Shore of Shinobazu Pond

霞む夕不忍池畔

1932

Color woodblock print

Misty Evening on the Shore of Shinobazu Pond (second impression)

霞む夕不忍池畔

1932

Color woodblock print

Moon at Umagome, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Uragome no tsuki)

1930

Color woodblock print

Moon over Ryogoku Bridge in Summer (Natsu Ryogoku no tsuki), from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons (Shiki Koto meisho)"

c. 1832/34

Color woodblock print; chutanzaku

Moon over the Ara River, Akabane, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Arakawa no tsuki (Akabane))

Tokyo nijukei, Arakawa no tsuki (Akabane

1929

Color woodblock print

Morning on the Daikon Wharf (Daikongashi no asa), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1927

Color woodblock print; oban

Mosquito Net (Kaya), from the series Model Young Women Woven in Mist (Kasumi-ori musume hinagata), Late Edo period, circa 1794-1795

Woodblock print

Night at Nihonbashi Bridge (Tokyo)

1946

Color woodblock print

Night View of Shinjuku, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge) / Tokyo junikei (Twelve Views of Tokyo)

Woodblock print

Niju Bridge at the Imperial Palace, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Ochanomizu / Edo Meisho zue

Woodblock print

Ochanomizu, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1926

Color woodblock print; oban

Odai Ferry in Tokyo

Woodblock print

Odai Ferry in Tokyo

Woodblock print

Opening of the New Azuma Bridge in Tokyo

Woodblock print

Paper Museum, Oji (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Picture of Barge-haulers at Night in Koume, Tokyo

August 1876

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Rain at Shimbashi (Tokyo). Feb. 1936 (10th year of Showa)

Woodblock print

Rainy Evening at Yanaka, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Rainy Night at Shinobazu Pond

不忍池の雨夜

1938

Color woodblock print

Red Gate at Tokyo University

Woodblock print

Resembling a Branch (Eda ni utsusu), from the series The Appearance of Upper-Class Women of the Edo Period (Tokugawa jidai kifujin no sugata) -- Woman with a Doll

Meiji period, dated October 10, 1896

Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper

Ryogoku Bridge, from the series Dutch-style Pictures: Eight Views of Edo (Oranda gakyo Edo hakkei)

Woodblock print

Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon)

1928

Color woodblock print

Scenes of Last Tokyo

Woodblock print

Scenes Of Tokyo Views Asakusa Temple

Woodblock print

Seconhand bookstores St. KANDA (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1995

Sengakuji Temple at Takanawa in Tokyo

Woodblock print

Sengakuji Temple in Snow (Yuki no Sengakuji), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1932

Color woodblock print; oban

Senzoku Pond (Senzokuike), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

Senzokuike

1928

Color woodblock print; oban

Shiba Zojoji Temple

芝増上寺

1934

Woodblock print

Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi), from the series "Twenty View of Tokyo (Tokyu nijukkei)"

1926

Color woodblock print; oban

Shinguka, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Shinjnku no yo (Night of Shinjuku) / Tokyo kaiko zue (Scenes of Last Tokyo)

Woodblock print

Shinjuku - Tokyo at Night

Woodblock print

Shinkawa at Night (Yoru no Shinkawa), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Yoru no Shinkawa

1919

Color woodblock print; oban

Shinobazu Lake in Tokyo, Shôwa period, dated 1932

Woodblock print

Shinobazu Pond

1928

Color woodblock print

Shinobazu Pond at Night

April 1932

Color woodblock print

Shinobazu Pond in Rain (Shinobazu no ike no ame), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1929

Color woodblock print; oban

Shitaya, from the series Twelve Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûni kei)

Woodblock print

Shokubutsu-en / Botanical Gardens / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

Woodblock print

Shrine at Ueno, Tokyo

Woodblock print

Snow at Kiyomizu Hall, Ueno (Ueno Kiyomizudo no yuki)

Ueno Kiyomizudo no yuki

1929

Color woodblock print; oban

Snow at Zojoji Temple (Yuki no Zojoji)

Yuki no Zojoji

1929

Color woodblock print; oban

Snow in Nakazato (Nakazato no yuki), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai no uchi)"

Nakazato no yuki

1928

Color woodblock print; double oban

Snowfall at Edo River

江戸川の雪

c. 1924

Color woodblock print

Snowy Night, Tokyo (Nuit de Neige, Tokyo)

1939

Color woodblock print

Spring Evening at Tokyo Ueno Park

東京上野公園春の夕

1948

Color woodblock print

Spring Snow at Hamacho Park in Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi-ku Hamacho koen shunsetsu) from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1940

Color woodblock print; oban

Spring's 4-Chome Ginza (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Sukiya Bridge, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1930

Color woodblock print

Sunrise at Hyappongui, Ryōgoku, Tokyo

1879 (Meiji 12)

Woodblock print (nishiki-e): ink and color on paper

Sunset in Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Woodblock print

Tempura Shops at Kagurazaka, from the series Tokyo fûkei hangashû, Taishô period, dated 1917

Woodblock print

Ten Views of Tokyo, AKASAKA MITSUKE

Woodblock print

The Flying (Metropolitan Goverment-I) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

The Geisha Kayo of Kyoto, Ikkaku of Osaka, and Kokichi of Tokyo

February 1877

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

The Kaminari Gate, Asakusa, from the series Scenes After the Tokyo Earthquake

1925

Color woodblock print

The Memorial Hall of the Earthquake in Honjo, from the series One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era

1932

Color woodblock print; oban

The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba (Shiba Benten ike)

Shiba Benten ike

1929

Color woodblock print; oban

The Red Gate of the Imperial University, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

The Shinagawa Offing (Shinagawa oki), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Shinagawa oki

1920

Color woodblock print; oban

The Sumida River in Mist (Sumidagawa, kiri), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Sumidagawa, kiri

1926

Color woodblock print; oban

Tokyo bay side Shibaura (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Tokyo kaika meisho no uchi

Woodblock print

Tokyo Landscape

Woodblock print

Tokyo Metro Library

Woodblock print

Tokyo Metro Library

Woodblock print

Tokyo Nihonbashi Bridge — 東京日本橋

Woodblock print

Tokyo Pleasures: Photographs

Woodblock print

Tokyo Pleasures: Women in Western Dress

Woodblock print

Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)

東京百景 21世紀へのメッセージ

1989-99

Woodblock print, zinc anastic plate on paper

Tokyo Shin-O-Hashi ame-chu zu

Woodblock print

Tokyo Station

Woodblock print

Tokyo Station

Woodblock print

Tokyo Station, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Tokyo Tower

東京タワー

c. 1960

Woodblock print

Tokyo Tower (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Tokyo West-Baiu (Rainy season) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Color woodblock print

Torii and Streetcar at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Taishô period, circa 1925

Woodblock print

Toyama Plain (Toyama no hara), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"

Toyama no hara

1920

Color woodblock print

True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, Late Edo period, sixth month of 1860

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Ariakero Restaurant, Imado

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Asakusa Hirokoji Broadway

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Autumn Leaves at Takinogawa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Below Dokanyama Hill

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Chitose-za Theatre at Hisamatsucho

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of Sotosakurada

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of Tsukiji-monzeki Temple

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Evening View of Asakusa Park

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Fujimi Ferry, Honjo

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Gubo-ji Temple, Mama

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Higashi-monzeki Temple, Asakusa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Honjo Ichinohashi Bridge from the Riverbank at Hamacho

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Honjo Warigesui Canal

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Ishiwarabashi Bridge on Okawa River

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kanda Myojin Shrine

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kandagawa River and Surugadai

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kinokuni Hill, Akasaka

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Koromogawa River Below Tenno-ji Temple

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Koume Towpath in the Snow

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kuramae Street, Asakusa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Makurabashi Bridge, Koume

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Motoyanagibashi Bridge

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Myoken-ji Temple in Yanagishima

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Nakamise Shops, Asakusa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: New Moon Over the One Hundred Piles

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Cherry Blossom on Mukojima

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Matsuchiyama Hill

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Shinbashi Station

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Sujikai Street

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Sumidagawa River

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Yanagibashi Bridge in the Rain

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Off the Coast at Shinagawa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Okurabashi Bridge, Honjo

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Shintomi-za Theatre

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Shinzaka Hill, Ueno

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Snow Scene of the Bank of Japan near Eitaibashi Bridge

Woodblock print

True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Suspension Bridge at Fukiage

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Taro Inari Shrine in Asakusa-tanbo

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Burnt Remains of Ryogokubashi Bridge

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Destruction of Hisamatsucho in a Fire that Started in Kanda

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Gardens at Mukojima Akiba Shrine

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The General Staff Office, Sakurada

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Great Fire at Ryogoku from the Hamacho Riverbank

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Industrial College at Toranomon

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Moon over Yushima Seido Temple

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Nakasu Sandbar

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Naval Ministry, Tsukiji

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Railroad at Takanawa

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Sea off Omori

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Square Next to Makurabashi Bridge, Honjo

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Temporary Palace at Akasaka

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Ueno Mausoleum

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Three-Story Tower in the Inner Keep

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Ume (Japanese apricot) Garden at Kameido

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View from Asakusabashi Bridge at Sunset

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Castle

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Ohashi Bridge from Mannenbashi Bridge

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Shin-Yoshiwara Licensed Quarter

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of the One Hundred Piles at Ryogoku

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Toranomon from Shibakuchi

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: View of Yorozuyobashi Bridge in the Rain

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Woolen Textile Factory, Senju

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Yaomatsu Restaurant, Koume

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Yushima Tenjin Shrine

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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Zenko-ji Temple, Kawaguchi

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Tsukiji monseki / Site of the Gateway, Tsukiji / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo

1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)

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Twelve Scenes of Tokyo: Kagurazaka Street after a Night Rain

after 1929

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Twelve Storied Tower, Tokyo, 1895

Japanese, Taishô era

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Twelve Views of Tokyo: Asakusa

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Twelve Views of Tokyo: Twelve Views of Tokyo (Tokyo Junikei: Tokyo Junikei)

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Ueno Toshogu Shrine

上野東照宮

1953

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Ueno Zoo, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

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View from Surugadai, from the series One-Hundred New Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei), Shôwa period, dated 1931

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View of Tokyo

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Visiting the Fudo Temple in Meguro (Meguro Fudo mode), from the series "Famous Places in Edo (Koto meisho)"

c. 1832/34

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Wisteria Blossoms at Kameido Shrine, Tokyo (Kameido Tenmangu)

1936

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Woman Red with White Chrysanthemums, from the series The Appearance of Upper-Class Women of the Edo period (Tokugawa jidai kifujin no sugata)

Meiji period, dated October 1895

Woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper

Yaguchi, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1928

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Yanagibashi Bridge, from the series Twelve Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûni kei)

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Yotsuya Mitsuke ukei (Rain at Yotsuya Mitsuke) / Shin Tokyo hyakkei (One Hundred New Views of Tokyo, No. 22)

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Yotsuya Scene (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

1989-99

Zojoji Temple in Shiba (Shiba Zojoji), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

Shiba Zojoji

1925

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Zojoji Temple in Snow

増上寺の雪

1953

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Artists Who Depicted Tokyo (53)

Akira Kurosaki

黒崎彰

1937–2019

Amano Kunihiro

天野邦弘

1929–2020

Ayomi Yoshida

吉田亜世美

1958

Chizuko Yoshida

吉田千鶴子

1924–2017

Fujimori Shizuo

藤森静雄

1891–1943

Fukita Fumiaki

吹田文明

1926

Fumio Kitaoka

北岡文雄

1918–2007

Gihachiro Okuyama

奥山儀八郎

1907–1981

Henmi Takashi

逸見享

1895–1944

Hideo Hagiwara

萩原英雄

1913–2007

Hiratsuka Un'ichi

平塚運一

1895–1997

Hiroshi Yoshida

吉田博

1876–1950

Inoue Yasuji

井上安治

1864–1889

Ishii Hakutei

石井柏亭

1882–1958

Ito Takashi

伊東孝

1894–1982

Jun'ichiro Sekino

関野準一郎

1914–1988

Kanenori Suwa

諏訪兼紀

1897–1932

Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾北斎

1760–1849

Kawachi Seiko

河内清光

1948

Kawanabe Kyosai

河鍋暁斎

1831–1889

Kawase Hasui

川瀬巴水

1883–1957

Kihei Sasajima

笹島喜平

1906–1993

Kishio Koizumi

小泉癸巳男

1893–1945

Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川歌麿

1753–1806

Kobayashi Kiyochika

小林清親

1847–1915

Kogan Tobari

戸張孤雁

1882–1927

Kusaka Kenji

日下健二

1936

Maeda Masao

前田政雄

1904–1974

Maekawa Senpan

前川千帆

1888–1960

Miyagawa Shuntei

宮川春汀

Noël Nouët

1885–1969

Oda Kazuma

織田一磨

1882–1956

Onchi Koshiro

恩地孝四郎

1891–1955

Paul Binnie

1967

Paul Jacoulet

ポール・ジャクレー

1896–1960

Reika Iwami

岩見禮花

1927–2020

Saito Kiyoshi

斎藤清

1907–1997

Sakuichi Fukazawa

深沢索一

1896–1947

Shiro Kasamatsu

笠松紫浪

1898–1991

Sumio Kawakami

川上澄生

1895–1972

Takahashi Rikio

高橋力雄

1917–1998

Takahashi Shotei

高橋松亭

1871–1945

Tanaka Ryohei

田中良平

1933–2019

Tetsuya Noda

野田哲也

1940

Toshi Yoshida

吉田遠志

1911–1995

Toyohara Chikanobu

豊原周延

1838–1912

Tsuchiya Koitsu

土屋光逸

1870–1949

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

月岡芳年

1839–1892

Umetaro Azechi

畦地梅太郎

1902–1999

Utagawa Hiroshige

歌川広重

1797–1858

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

歌川国芳

1798–1861

Yoshisuke Funasaka

舩坂芳助

1939

Yuhan Ito

伊藤雄半

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Hanga catalogues 255 prints depicting Tokyo (東京), by 53 different artists.

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