Artworks

Spectacle of the Imperial Diet Building at Sawai-chō in Kōjimachi Ward, Tokyo

Artwork · Utagawa Kunitoshi · 1890 · Japanese woodblock print · Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

A triptych by Utagawa Kunitoshi on the opening of the Diet building in 1890, the year after Emperor Meiji proclaimed the constitution: the parliament, modelled on the British, with carriages and mounted guards in front. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 343–344, fig. 401. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.