# Kinryūsan Temple at Asakusa, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo", in Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige designed this in 1856, aged 59. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Seen from beneath the Kaminarimon gate, a giant red paper lantern hangs across the top of the print, framing the snowy approach to the Sensōji temple at Asakusa and its five-storey pagoda, while visitors with umbrellas pick their way along the white path.

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## The work

- Date: 1856
- Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: H. 14 1/16 in. (35.7 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2519
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Utagawa Hiroshige](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/utagawa-hiroshige), Japanese, 1797–1858

Hiroshige was born into a family of Edo fire wardens and trained under Utagawa Toyohiro. His breakthrough came in the early 1830s with The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, scenes along the highway between Edo and Kyoto.

19 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Utagawa Hiroshige's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-utagawa-hiroshige?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/ukiyo-e?hang=749) (172 works)
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