Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)
1856
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 36.2 × 24.3 cm (13 3/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In this well-known image of cherry blossoms in spring, people make their way to a ferry (out of view at left) to ride across the Sumida River.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
