Moon Pine, Ueno by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857, framed print

Moon Pine, Ueno

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Japanese Prints

From Hiroshige's series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, published in 1857. The Moon Pine on the grounds of Kan'ei-ji temple at Ueno had a branch that curled into a full circle. Hiroshige frames Shinobazu Pond and its shoreline through the loop of the branch. This impression is in the Library of Congress.

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