Artworks

Famous Views of Tokyo: Brick and Stone Shops on Ginza Avenue

Artwork · Hiroshige III · 1876 · Japanese woodblock print · Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

By Hiroshige III: twenty years of change in Tokyo — Western-style brick and stone façades along the Ginza, horse-drawn omnibuses, rickshaws, and citizens in purely Western, purely Japanese and mixed dress; soon there would be tracks for trams and wires for electricity. 1 Mason 2005, p. 345, fig. 402. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.