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View of Asakusa Kanzeon Temple (Asakusa Kanzeon no zu)
「浅草観世音之図」
Utagawa Kunihide 歌川国秀 (fl. c. 1894-1895)
Publisher: Murakami Toyojirō 村上豊次郎
1895
Signature
梅堂國秀
Baidō Kunihide
Colophon
明治廿八年囗月十二日印刷囗囗仝月十五発行　印刷発行者下谷区二長町拾五番地浅草公園仲見世仁王門東側四号　村上豊次郎
Meiji nijūhachinen ?-gatsu jūninichi insatsu … dōgatsu jūgo[nichi] hakkō / Insatsu hakkōsha Shitaya-ku Nichōmachi 15-banchi Asakusa Kōen Nakamise Niōmon Higashigawa shi-gō / Murakami Toyojirō
Labeled Figures/Features
「十二カイ」 Ryōunkaku 凌雲閣 tower, also known as Asakusa Jūnikai 浅草十二階 ("Asakusa Twelve-stories"), destroyed by the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
「ヨシワラ」 Yoshiwara
「アワシマ」 Awashima-dō 淡島堂, a subtemple on the grounds of Sensō-ji
「スミダ川」 Sumidagawa
「本堂」 The main hall ("hondō") of the temple
「二王門」 Niomon Gate, rebuilt in 1964 and now known as Hōzōmon 宝蔵門
「五重トウ」 Gojūnotō, the five-storey pagoda of Sensō-ji
「弁天山」 Benten Hill
「三社」 Sanja
「六シンウ？」 or 六ツソウ？
「フタマサ」
「ネン囗堂」
「囗囗イ」
Commentary
This artist is not well-documented, but the name 梅堂国秀 appears on Kunisada's grave monument (1893); see http://artistian.net/kunisada_haka/
Dimensions
Vertical ōban; 25.5 × 37.8 cm (10 × 14.9 in)
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