Tôto meisho: Kasumigaseki
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Description
Urban landscapes such as this street on a hot summer’s day were not neglected by ukiyo-e art. Western aesthetics had enormous impact on Japanese art in the 1800s. Kuniyoshi’s adaptation of Western linear perspective emphasizes the people, hilltop, and receding distance.
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