Edo (Tokyo): Kanda Festival Procession: four large, elaborately decorated floats are shown being pulled through the city. Colour woodcut by Yoshifuji, 1884.

  • Utagawa, Yoshifuji, 1828-1887.
Date:
1884
Reference:
566818i
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The Kanda Festival was one of the city's main seasonal events. Until the prevalence of telegraph lines made passage too difficult, shrine festivals were celebrated in this way, with each block of houses competing to produce the most elaborate and intricate float. This type of festival procession, at the Kanda shrine as elsewhere, was later replaced by the more boisterous conveying of portable shrines

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1884.

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours ; sheet (comprising 3 pieces) 33.7 x 71.1 cm

Lettering

Ippōsai Yoshifuji-ga Bears publisher's mark and set title

Creator/production credits

Yoshifuji was a pupil of Kuniyoshi

Reference

Wellcome Collection 566818i

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