
Moon Pine, Ueno
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
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.





