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Your galleryHilltop View from Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin sakaue tenbo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
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Stand with the figures at the top of the steps, then look out over the white roofs to the blue pond and its little snow-covered island.
Hiroshige worked on One Hundred Famous Views of Edo from 1856 until his death in 1858, and the series was issued complete in 1859; seals on this sheet date it to the fourth month of 1856. Yushima Tenjin is a shrine to Tenjin, the court minister Sugawara no Michizane, honored as the god of learning. From the top of its hill we look past the stone gate and a hall hung with red lanterns, across snowy roofs to a pond with a small island.
Color woodblock print; oban · 35.9 × 24.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: Hilltop View from Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin sakaue tenbo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
- Art Institute of Chicago: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Art Institute of Chicago: Night Rain at the Paulownia Grove at Akasaka (Akasaka Kiribatake uchu yukei), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)" (Utagawa Hiroshige II)
- Art Institute of Chicago: The Story of Sugawara no Michizane (Kitano Tenjin Emaki Dankan)
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- Museum title
- Hilltop View from Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin sakaue tenbo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 35.9 × 24.3 cm (14 1/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Chester W. Wright
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.