Hiroshige "The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya" -One Hundred Famous Views of Edo- Bridge Available in four colors

Available in four colors

freely placing it within the knot formations

depicts the ethereal world that separates life and death

demonstrating the abundance of life

Hiroshige "The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya" -One Hundred Famous Views of Edo- Bridge Available in four colorsThis is a scene drawn in the Suijin Woods and Masaki on the Sumida River Banks seen from the opposite direction. It is understood that Hiroshige sketched it from the window of Kinoeneya Restaurant situated in the precinct of the Masaki Inari Shrine. Kinoeneya was one of the restaurants in the compound serving a special dish of Tofu (bean curd), baked and daubed with Miso (bean paste). They catered to visitors to the shrine which was favored by the