Currently bound together with other 11 prints in the series in folding album.

Excellent impression and colors, fine gradations, shomen-zuri pattern on the last sheet (2005.1.55). Most of the sheets in the album are the first edition printing.

Signed: “Yoshu Chikanobu” with Nobuhiro

Colored ink on paper, sheets assembled in folding album format, red silk on the covers, woodblock prints.

Two women have been enjoying the cherry blossoms, for which Mukojima was famous, and one lady now rests on a red felt covered seat. The Meiji author Nagai Kafu thought highly of the area: "They who make the count of famous places of Tokyo cannot but put a pair of scenic spots, Ueno and Mukojima, at the head of their lists." The inset depicts the Hirajima Shinto shrine building at right with an enormous bronze lantern, and a statue of an ox at left with various ribbons and prayer plaques around its neck. The Mukojima area had many temples and shrines; this one might be dedicated to Kitano Tenjin, whose vehicle is an ox.

For more information, please refer to the Chikanobu exhibition catalogue.

Morimoto Junzaburo

This object has the following keywords:

• 1891-1912
• Farm Animals
• Groups
• Zodiac

This object is a member of the following portfolios: