Kinryūsan Temple at Asakusa
Original title
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP2519
- Credit
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A view through the great gate of Sensō-ji in Edo: a huge red paper lantern hangs across the top, and beyond it the temple hall and a five-storey pagoda stand in falling snow, with small figures under umbrellas crossing the white courtyard.
- Image
- 1093 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009003
coldlibrary.com/g/009003 - Credit line
- Utagawa Hiroshige, Kinryūsan Temple at Asakusa, 1856. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009003
From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, the great series of Hiroshige’s last years. He frames the view through the gate and lets the top edge cut the lantern off, a device that later caught the eye of European painters. The lantern is the warmest thing in a cold picture, which is reason enough for it to hang in a library that keeps its lamps lit.
