
Fireworks at Ryōgoku
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858
From Hiroshige's series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. A single firework bursts in the night sky over the Sumida River at Ryōgoku Bridge, where crowds gathered in boats each summer for the fireworks. The print was published in 1858. This impression is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.





