Goten-yama hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō

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Goten-yama hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō

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Print shows people having a picnic as others stroll along paths through grove of cherry trees at blossom time at the Shinagawa station on the Tōkaidō Road, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance.
Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.
From the series: Fugaku sanjūrokkei : 36 views of Mount Fuji.
Takamizawa modern reprint (Showa).
Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

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01/01/1890
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Meiden Akasaka-eki34.85936, 137.31114
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