| Thanks for that, JR. I've attached a color version so folks can appreciate the beauty of this ukiyo-e (woodblock print).
Plate #63 in Hiroshige's masterwork The Hundred Famous Views of Yedo, the print is entitled Suido Bashi, Surugadai. Basil Stewart describes it thusly:
"Suruga-dai (a suburb of Yedo) from Suido Bridge," on the Boys' Festival (May 5th), and a great paper carp floating from a pole in foreground. Below is the river and bridge, and the roofs of Suruga-dai ; Fuji (grey with streaks of snow on its cone) rising in distance against a crimson sky, changing to pale blue-grey and purple at top. Over the distant roofs float other paper carps and various banners. (Dated "Snake ' intercalary' five" = intercalary fifth month (i.e. May), 1857.) |