Artist: Nagashima Shungyo
Date: 1891
Museum: Keio University Library (Tokyo, Japan)
Technique: Woodblock Print
One characteristic of the Meiji Kaika-e is the way in which the depiction of figures confuses and comingles elements of western culture washed ashore with the enlightenment and traditional culture which lingers on from the Edo Period. Asakusa, which is both the gateway to Sensoji Temple and the Shin-Yoshiwara red-light district, the greatest pleasure quarters of Edo, flourished as a town of both pilgrimage and pleasure as the Meiji era gathered steam. On the right, the Kannon-do Hall of Sensoji Temple constructed in the Nara Period is depicted, while on the left, we find the modern high-rise Ryounkaku skyscraper, popularly referred to as the
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