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Japanese Woodblock Prints
Kinryūzan Temple at Asakusa, 1856
Asakusa Kinryūzan, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo — Utagawa Hiroshige
From the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints collection · 1856
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Source scan:LOC (Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints). Rights statement of the archive: “No known restrictions on publication. Ukiyo-e print by an artist who died before 1930; the impression itself was published before 1930 — public domain in the United States, Japan and the EU.” Original print: Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856, 1 print : woodcut, color.. Verified 2026-09-13.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that print. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this print
Sensō-ji at Asakusa is the oldest temple in Tokyo and still the most visited, and the view Hiroshige chose for One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is the one every visitor still takes: standing under the great gate, looking down the approach to the main hall. He drew it in snow. The enormous red lantern of the Kaminarimon hangs across the top of the sheet and the gate’s red pillars frame the picture; between them a white path leads past worshippers with umbrellas to the temple and the five-storey pagoda, with snowflakes falling as white dots left on the block.
The colour is the point — the red of the gate against the white of the snow and the grey sky — and it is one of the sheets that made the series famous in Europe. The Library of Congress impression is early and cleanly registered; restored from the archive’s scan without redrawing, at the vertical oban’s own proportions.
Printed to order on archival matte paper or canvas, framed in the country of delivery.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Restoration: trimmed the mount and scanner margins, balanced levels while keeping the paper tone and the flat colour blocks of the woodblock impression (85% of the original colour retained), removed dust and specks, applied gentle sharpening. Toning, wormholes, the printer's registration and the collector's seals are kept where they belong to the object; nothing is redrawn.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
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Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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