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Kinryuzan at Asakusa
by Hiroshige 1 Ando (1797-1858, Utagawa)

	Artist:	Hiroshige 1 Ando (1797-1858, Utagawa) — 歌川広重
	Title:	Kinryuzan at Asakusa
	Series:	100 Views of Famous Places in Edo [oban tateye] — 名所江戸百景
	Date of first edition?:	1856-1859
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Not Set
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Not Set
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Not Set
	Format (this edition):	Not Set
	DB artwork code:	28484
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Kinryuzan at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of EdoÓ, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) This snowy scene of the Kinryuzan Sensoji temple (famous as the Asakusa Kannon) looks toward the temple from the Kaminarimon gate. The partial, but grand, view of the pillars of the gate and its huge paper lantern contrasts with the tiny distant temple, and heightens the white of the snow. Hiroshige's use of this kind of cropped composition had an enormous influence on western Impressionists.