# Autumn at Asakusa; Viewing cherry blossoms at Ueno Park

- By: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 (1618-1694)
- Date: 17th century
- Medium: Ink, color, and gold on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (.266): 179.9 x 382.3 cm (70 13/16 x 150 1/2 in)
- Culture: Japanese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1906.266-267/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b5e7869f4519a6ef407724e4a7b08441.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In March 1657 a fire destroyed much of the city of Edo (Tokyo). More than one hundred thousand people perished in the blaze or in the snowstorm that immediately followed. Fashions distinctive to the late seventeenth century are clearly evident among the nearly four hundred figures populating the expanse of this painting. Thus, these screens, painted in the artist's final years, should be understood as Moronobu's celebration of the seasonal pleasures of a resurrected and vital metropolis.