Artworks

The Niōmon of Kinryūzan (Scene in Asakusa)

Artwork · Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1800 · Japanese woodblock print · Katsushika Hokusai Museum of Art, Tsuwano

From the series New Images of the Floating World (Shinban Uki-e) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849): courtesans and townspeople bustle around the gate of the Asakusa temple, guarded by enormous Niō, the crowds on its balcony and in the street giving a sense of the vitality of the culture of the entertainment quarters — and of a new leisure tourism. 1 Mason 2005, p. 275, fig. 313. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.