Catalog ID: 4118
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo #65
Edition: Original
Date: 1856
Publisher: Eikichi
Reference No.: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Size: 14 -1/4 x 9 -3/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo #65
Edition: Original
Date: 1856
Publisher: Eikichi
Reference No.: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Size: 14 -1/4 x 9 -3/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Signed: 'Hiroshige ga'. Published by Uoya Eikichi.
The Kameido Tenjin Shrine was dedicated in the early 1660s as a part of the campaign to open the east bank of the Sumida for urban settlement in the wake of the devastating Meireki fire of 1657. The dedication to Tenjin, the deified Sugawara Michizane (845–903), patron saint of learning and calligraphy, is said to have been inspired by the personal veneration of the shogun Ietsuna (1641–80).