The Buddhist temple Asakusa Kinryuzan

The Buddhist temple Kinryuzan is still a favorite site for visitors. During the nineteenth century its thriving marketplace attracted many visitors in the spring and autumn when the weather was most pleasant. Here among many Japanese visitors, the artist has focused in the foreground on a group of Western men and a Chinese assistant, the type of group that would be seen in Yokohama prints. Since excursions to Edo from nearby Yokohama were restricted at the time when this print was published, this scene is likely to have been imaginatively constructed by the artist.

National Museum of Asian Art Collection